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PROF. O. S. IFO^VIjIER 

n the final and closing Wcrk of his life in the revising of all his 
and pulling in a complete and comprehensive form, Vie results of 
Ms 50 years of constant observation and experience in a field of study, where 
with confessedly no rival, he has spread Ms fame and Man-Improving Teach- 
ings world-wide, and by helping untold thousands into heller and more ele- 
vated modes of living, stands before Ms race a philanthropist and public 
benefactor. In a book entitled 




ITS FACTORS AND IMPROVEMENT: 



INCLUDING 

PHRENOLOGY, its Principles, Proofs, Faculties, Organs, Improvements, 
Teachings, applied to PHYSIOLOGY, Or Health, its Value, Laws, Preser- 
vation, Restoration; MENTAL SCIENCE, Self-Culture, Physiognomy, Society, 
Commerce and Government; a PERFECT FAMILY, Man, Woman, Love, Mating, 
Marriage, Paternity, Maternity, Infancy, Rearing and Home. INTELLECT, 
Memory, Education, the Senses, Arts and Sciences. GOD, His Attributes, 
Works, Worship and Natural Laws; and to IMMORTALITY, its Evidences, 
Relations to Time, Awards, Surroundings. With Duty, Sin, Repentance, 
Pardon, Faith, Prayer and Eternal Progress. 



By O. S. FOWLER, 

The Veteran Phrenological Author and Lecturer. 

This is the beginning and first chapter of this great 
work, which covers the entire cycle of human nature, 
Anatomical, Physiological, Affectional, Propensional, 
Commercial, Ambitional, Governmental, JSsthetical, 
Educational, Intellectual and Moral, and embracing the 
entire curriculum of man's interests and improvement— 
by far the most comprehensive volume ever prepared 
for patronage. The following give correct ideas of its 
mode of handling its subject, and the following Synop- 
sis of its Contents shows the range and cast of the sub- 
jects it treats ; each of which readers are respectfully 
invited to scan attentively, to see whether they do not 
desire to possess a Work so pre-eminently Scientific, 
Self-Instructive and Man-Improving. 

It is now in preparation, and will be issued during 1881. 
Will contain 1200 or more pages, be copiously illustrated, 
and no expense spared in publishing. 

Sold only by Subscription, at $5.00 per Copy. 

AH who pay $4.00 before August, 1881, will receive 
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CONTENTS OF No. i. 

PART I. Organism. Phrenology. The first principles of life. Its value and improvement. 
Nature is infinitely perfect. Life is Nature's most perfect work. Human life its highest form. 
Value of life and its functions. Its enjoyments measure its worth. Its inherent value is all iis possi- 
ble pleasures. Enjoying as we go. Natural laws, their existence and the rationale of causation. 
They embody the divine command. Happiness appended to their fulfilment. Pain to their violation. 
Each self-rewarding and punishing. Experien -e ever working and enforcing them. All sufferings 
turn all evils into good, aud vices into virtues. Pain cures. All sufferings yield double pleasure. All 
should study them. Unnoticed law. AH fluids move by rolling. Why? Electricity Nature's great 
motor and life agent. Effects all sidereal revolutions; ditto sensation and motion. Thermal alternations 
creates it. Is natures great health restorer. Heat pstrifies. How a California forest was turned into 
stone while standing. Pressure promotes' action — circulation, muscles, nerves, &c. Promotes eyesight. 
Spectacles not necessary. Phrenology. Man the epitome of Nature. Mind do. of man. Each mental 
faculty adapted to an attribute of Nature. Analizing mind, analizes Nature. The mind a plurality 
of mental faculties. Six proofs: 1. Doing many things at once. 2. Partial genius. 3. Monomania. 
4. Waning desires. 5. Dreams. 6. All things made up of parts. All functions manifested 
onty by organs. All organic states affect functions. Value of good bodies. Rich dresses on poor 
physiques. Keep body in good working order. Brain. Organ of mind; do. of body. Its states 
control all mental, all physical functions. Value of good brains over poor. The mental function 
executed in grey, its galatinous surface. Vibration, its mode of action. Proof, the nervous system 
begins and .ends in it. White brain matter composed of transfer nerves. Seat of the soul. Con- 
sciousness. How nerves act to carry on life and sensation. Skin. How pleasures and pains are 
caused. Nervous paralysis. Amount, cause, cure. All painful action impairs, pleasurable improves 
organs. Bodily impairmonts create sinful proclivities. Strong bodies necessary to strong minds. 
Materialism. Brain composed of as many organs as mind of faculties. Size indicates power. Strong 
faculties have larire; weak, small organs. Ditto, cause different shapes, which indicate differing 
characters. How Phrenology was discovered and founded. Human and animal brains contrasted. 
Attestations. Objections. Mind shapes body and brain. Organic quality. Fine and coarse blood 
corpuscles. Form indicates the three temperaments— Vital, Molive, Mental. What mental 
characteristics each produces. Their combinations. Their balance b?st. Signs of character, com 
plexion, voices, tones, eyes, beauty, walk, resemblances to animals, natural language, &c. Self perfec- 
tion. Proportion, normal action, &c. Culture enlarges and strengthens. Self-knowledge. How to 
excite Faculties, &c. 

PART II. Health Life's first pre-requisite. Amount attainable. Restorable. A duty. Sick- 
ness sinful. Life's functions. Vitality first. The Will cure. Respiration. Oxygen. Doubled by 
diaphragm breathing. The lungs. Ventilation. Blue veins. Stooping. Breathing propels the 
blood. The breath cure. Prevention and cure of consumption. Food. Appetite and smell should 
sek'ct it. Man omnivorous. Cookery. Unleavened bread. Fruits, sweets, pastry, milk, &c. Masti- 
cation, quantity, &c. The digestive process. Stomach and liver. Constipation, prolapsus, d} r spepsia, 
how caused and cured, &c. "Fluids. The blood. Drinks. Soft water. Tea, coffee, alcoholic and 
malt liquor hankerings, and their cure. Tobacco. The heart, kidneys, glands, excretions, etc. The 
skin. Animal Heat. Fire, clothes, the feet. Colds, and their cure, &c. Sleep, its uses, times, 
promotion, &c. Boxes, muscles, the exercise cure &c. Nerves. Insanity and its cure. Hydro- 
pathy, electropathy, coldpathy, sun and earth pathies, &c. Cure of asthma, inflammations, rheu- 
matism, neuralgia, burns, wounds, tumors, &c. 21. Health rules. What is as practically important, 
throughout all the pursuits of life, as a good, sound constitution, that base of all terrestrial functions 
and enjoyments'? What are riches and honors, what is even life itself, without health? What is the 
value of a robust family over a sickly one? And how horrible is premature death! 

PART III. The Family. Creative Laws render all the functions of all that lives just what 
they are. thus proffering mortals the sublimest utilities of the universe; which all parents can and 
should learn and apply to the illimitable improvement of all yet unborn. How foolish, wicked, even 
accu-ned to produce few, poor, satanic young, instead of many good angelic darlings! Good Lord! 
How long snail men ignore or taboo such infinite eventualities? 

Tnis book unfolds this parent-and children-perfecting theme scientifically. How exalted its mission! 
What soul but must clutch this it's natural-laws exposition! Along with its analysis of male and female 
perfection. 

Love is God's creative agent, and wields absolutely sovereign pow T er over every parental iota; else 
how could it transmit all? Just think, O reader, how many of your virtues and vices, pleasures and 
pains spring from your own affectional and sexual states: yet none trace a thousandth part to this their 
great controller. Tremble as you here behold how and why Love is the tyrannical Autocrat of all-men, 
all women, so as to perfect their children- and also what love states to secure, and avoid. 

A happy family is earth's only paradise, a miserable, like being chained to a putrifying carcass. To 
secure a controlling interest " in the former, and avoid " sharing the latter, is rendered easy and sure, 
by learning and fulfilling Nature's love laws, here expounded thoroughly and philosophically. 

Nature's creative embrace is the soul of man, woman, Love, marriage, the family, reproduction, 
and whatever -else appertains to either; and that for which each was created: Hence its being right or 
wrong, perfect or imperfect, renders them equally so; besides making every offspring precisely what it 
is: whilst most conjugal and sexual ailments and immoralities originate in its errors, and marital virtues 
and enjoyments in its right fulfillment. 

It has its natural laws, which all its participants are sacredly . bound to obey. Tlieir violation, 
not " Adam's fall," causes most of man's "total depravities; " whilst their fulfillment would soon regen- 
erate the race : nor can man be essentially improved but through it. 

A knowledge of its science thus becomes as infinitely important as are sexual perfection, conjugal 
felicity, and perfect children— man's three dearest interests; Which it governs. 

Being sexed gives the inherent right, even makes it our solemn duty, to know its natural re- 
quirements beforehand; else how can we fulfill them ? 

Woman needs this knowledge most; because Nature installs her queen over this whole creative do- 
main; and a sudden marriage may any time demand its fulfillment. Its right use enatle; any and aU . 

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ITS 



FACTORS AND IMPROVEMENT 



INCLUDING 



PHRENOLOGY, 

ITS PRINCIPLES, PROOFS, FACULTIES, ORGANS, TEMPERAMENTS AND TEACHINGS 



APPLIED TO 



PHYSIOLOGY, 

AND HEALTH ; ITS VALUE, LAWS, RESERVATION AND RESTORATION. 

MENTAL SCIENCE, 

SELF-CULTURE, PHYSIOGNOMY, SOCIETY, COMMERCE AND GOVERNMENT. 

A PERFECT FAMILY, 

MAN, WOMAN, LOVE, MATING, MARRIAGE, PATERNITY, MATERNITY, INFANCY, 

REARING AND HOME. 



INTELLECT, 

MEMORY, EDUCATION, THE SENSES, ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



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GOD, 




HIS ATTRIBUTES, WORKS, WORSHIP AND NATURAL LAWS. AND TO 

IMMORTALITY, 

ITS EVIDENCES, RELATIONS TO TIME, AWARDS AND SURROUNDINGS, WITH DUTY, 
SIN, REPENTANCE, PARDON, FAITH, PRAYER AND ETERNAL PROGRESS. 

"Being old while young, makes young while old." 
"Study and follow Nature. 1 ' 

ZEnydBZEa-A-CiJCTa- jllu his works eeyissd. 

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IBy o. s. zfowulier,, • 

Author of Fowler on" Phrenology " "Physiology ," "Self-Culture" "Memory" "Religion" "Human 
Science,"" "Sexual and Creative " "Self-Instructor on Phrenology ," Etc., Etc. 

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PREFACE. 



MAN IS THE EPITOME OF NATURE. All her laws and facts are 
embodied in him ; along with all her arrangements, causational, 
composital, electrical, gravital, optical, mechanical, periodical, 
reproductive, and every other ; so that, 

AntJiropology teaclies universal truth by expounding human nature 
throughout all its Factors and ramifications ; and as such has no equal in 
practical importance, and inherent value — as far surpassing all other 
studies as her subject matter, Man, transcends all else terrestrial. His 

Mentality alone constitutes his component essence, his life force ; alone 
enjoys and suffers ; feels, thinks, and acts ; is the summary of Nature ; 
lives forever; and is Jehovah's crowning work. All human interests 
originate and converge in this their focal center. This renders 

Mental Philosophy the embodied summary of all science ; the philos- 
opher's crucial test of all doctrines, all practices, educational, com- 
mercial, social, governmental, moral, religious, and all others ; as well as 
of universal humanity, throughout all times and . conditions ; and has 
therefore justly engrossed the master intellects of the whole race. 

Its scientific analysis, as of all else, alone reveals its nature, laws, uses, 
ways, means, ends, functions, right and wrong action, and whatever 
appertains to man ; which makes it the chief Factor in anthropology. 

Every other exposition of mind utterly fails, each showing how faulty 
all ; nor can any definite idea of its elements or outworkings be obtained 
from them all ; because none correctly analyze its component Faculties, 
the sole Factors of humanity ; whereas 

Phrenology gives this analysis ; thereby enabling us to identify and 
describe each, along with all their outworking ramifications, by sight, 
touch, and experiment, those infallible tests of all truth ; and hence alone 
deserves the exalted title of Mental Science. 

Its discovery is far the greatest and most useful ever made, completely 
overshadowing steam, machinery, telegraphy, and all other modern 
improvements, by unfolding Creation's sublimest department, Mind, in 
which existence itself inheres, and from which emanate whatever all 
living beings do and are ; thereby seizing the life entity itself at its 
center, and ramifying it through all its outworking operations. Nothing 
but 

This mental anaJysis teaches a right life, that most exalted attainment 
possible to men and angels. Just how to live — what we should do here, 
and not do there ; what is right, and what wrong, and why either, and 



ii PREFACE. 

how to direct our steps accordingly through all our daily feelings and 
doings, are problems perpetually recurring, and demanding practical 
answers every passing moment ; so that some infallible tribunal for their 
prompt and correct adjudication is infinitely important as our sure guide 
from all wrong and misery, to all virtue and happiness. Just how to 
derive from life all its possible goods and enjoyments, and avoid all its 
evils and sufferings, is the master problem, as yet unsolved, and should 
be the chief study, of all human beings ; as it is the highest aspiration 
and first instinct of all sentient life. Hence the scientific analysis of 
these Mental Faculties, by teaching all this, ranks all other snbjects in 
practical importance and profound philosophy. Only 

Phrenology supplies this analysis, and thereby reveals all their right 
and wrong, virtuous and vicious, pleasurable and painful, modes of action ; 
besides describing the perfect man ; thus showing all persons, all com- 
munities, just wherein and how far they conform to this standard, and 
depart from it ; that is, whether and wherein each is doing and feeling 
right and wrong. 

A science zvhich does all this must soon become the great study of the 
race, and so continue till " time shall be no longer." 

A standard work on this mental science, which analyzes its Faculties, 
unfolds its principles, classifies its facts, gives its history and recent dis- 
coveries and improvements, and embodies the gist of all its previous 
writings, with whatever is known concerning it, is an unequaled public 
and private benefaction. 

Gall, one of this world's greatest men, discovered its basilar fact that 
each mental Power manifests itself only through its specific cerebral 
organ, the size of which, other things being equal, indicates its functional 
efficiency, along with the location of most of them, yet did little toward 
developing this science as such ; and Spurzheim, a close observer and 
deep thinker, added to Gall's discoveries, made important improvements, 
and wrote valuable works on Phrenology itself and its applications to 
Education, Insanity, the Natural Laws, etc. ; while George Combe, one 
of the very greatest and best men of his own age or any other, super- 
added to those of both, and wrote those masterworks, the " Constitution 
of Man," " Vestiges of Creation," and. many others ; and the Author has 
contributed, let others say how much, toward developing this all-glorious 
science by his various works, partly enumerated above ; and yet all these, 
along with all its other writings, are fragmentary ; whereas the best interests 
of mankind demand a comprehensive and complete exposition of both 
this science itself, and all its teachings, and applications to all the varied 
departments of humanity. 

Man 7nnst be investigated as one great whole, because composed of 
many co-ordinate parts and functions, each working in conjunction with 
all its others ; so that, as studying a very complex machine requires scru- 
tinizing each of its parts as co-working with all ; so man must be studied 
as a unit, not in fractions. Only this unitarian aspect of all the depart- 
ments of his most elaborate nature as co-operating with all the others, is 
of much practical value ; whereas hitherto he has been expounded in 
isolated sections — by anatomists merely structurally, physiologists purely 
functionally, metaphysicians solely theoretically, theologians wholly 
spiritually, worldlings simply practically, and therefore by all frag- 
mentarily — one devoted to one, another to some other, set of his bodily 



PREFACE. iii 

organs, or to one or another remedial, or dietetic, or sectarian idea or 
dogma ; or else to Education, or Marriage, etc. ; quite like a fly seeing 
only his corner of one room in this vast Temple of Life, but none even 
attempting to discuss him as a complete totality. What could we learn 
about the heart, or lungs, or stomach, or muscles, or brain, or nerves, 
etc., without examining them all together ? Then how futile this dis- 
cussing man's body without reference to his mentality ? Or his religious 
nature apart from his physical, or intellectual? Or either irrespective of 
his social ? Or any org apart from all the other departments of his com- 
plex being ? Preposterous, all such attempts. 

This work expounds man collectively. What department of human 
interest does it omit? Let its " Contents "* answer. Would you learn 
his organic structure, find it here ; and each part as interrelated to all 
parts ; each bodily function as affecting, and affected by, all his intel- 
lectual, moral, affectional, societarian, etc. This curriculum of its subject 
matter challenges special attention. It obtruded itself upon the Author 
by his being obliged, while revising each of his works, to quote or refer 
in each to subjects discussed in others ; which induced him to embody 
them all into this one comprehensive volume, and thus treat all branches 
of Anthropology together. Its subject matter naturally divides itself 
into these Seven Parts : — 

Part I.— THE ORGANISM, AND PHRENOLOGY— discusses 
man's organic relations ; analyzes the fundamental conditions of life, its 
temperaments, organs, and powers, together with their phrenological, 
physiological, and other modes of manifestation, etc. ; and applies all to 
self and human improvement. 

Part II. — PHYSIOLOGY — analyzes his physical functions, describes 
and illustrates their anatomical organs, and applies all to HEALTH, its 
value, laws, means of preservation and restoration, etc., and shows all 
how to get and keep themselves and families well without doctors or 
medicines — a boon how almost infinitely great — besides analyzing the 
self-caring Faculties, called Animal Propensities, which look after our 
physical and personal wants. Thus Appetite selects, eats, digests, and 
appropriates food ; so that whatever involves alimentation, dyspepsia 
included, is here grouped around this mental nucleus, where alone it can 
be discussed practically or scientifically. Every other physical organ 
equally with the stomach, has its own mental Faculty ; so that we treat 
whatever concerns breathing, consumption included, under respiration, 
etc. — a specialty unbiased readers will prize, even though medical pro- 
fessors criticise. Since each bodily organ was created solely to express 
its own mental Faculty, why not investigate together what Nature thus 
unites ? We .followed this fragmentary plan until our totality doctrine 
taught us this better way. 

Part III. — THE FAMILY — discusses man's affectional and domestic 
relations, especially as carrying forward Nature's most important depart- 
ment, Reproduction, the means of all life and happiness ; besides unfold- 
ing creative and family science. As a power over man, individually and 
collectively, 

The family has no peer ; for it is the foundation of all human society 
and institutions ; the source of all laws and customs ; the crowned head 
of all governments ; the chief instructor of all nations ; the inspiring motor 
of all commerce and industries ; the sacred vestibule of all religions ; the 



iv PREFACE. 

heart's core of humanity ; and Nature's prime instrument of all the pow- 
ers and virtues, joys and hopes, and very existence of the race itself! All 
human interests, throughout all their ramifications, spring from this their 
fountain head, and all determining condition. A right family makes its 
possessors virtuous and superlatively happy, and a wrong, the converse ; 
besides giving a " sweet home," or a wretched. 

It has its s ic?ice, or laws and right management ; following which in- 
sures perfect family felicity. Then 

Where are its laws expounded ? Mostly ignored by pulpit, press, 
rostrum, novels even, yet completely unfolded by Phrenology. Ardent, 
marriageable youth are taught all other knowledge but this, thus being 
compelled to act blindly in this the casting die of life. Searchers after 
marital and domestic felicity, find their scientific exposition here. As 

The central crozvn of every subject, like that of every vegetable, 
whence all its roots descend, tops ascend, and products emanate, pre- 
determines whatever appertains to it ; so Love is this reproductive crown, 
gender its trunk means, and perfect men, women, and children its most 
glorious products ; and this book, by analyzing it, reveals Nature's code of 
laws for originating life ; and institutes her supreme tribunal for adjudicat- 
ing whatever appertains to each family member separately, and all collect- 
ively ; together with all their mutual " rights," wrongs, treatment, 
spheres, perfections, government, education, and all their interrelations. 
Oh, what it is to become a perfect man, " God's noblest work," or woman. 
His loveliest, and have perfect children, His dearest — three superlative 
blessings. Yet this requires that definite knowledge of their elementary 
attributes created by this love Faculty which alone makes them husbands 
and wives, parents and children. In this analysis, behold all human 
passions and desires, physical functions and mental Faculties, and what- 
ever constitutes and concerns humanity, bound hand and foot to the 
triumphal car of this " master passion " — they its humble vassals, it their 
imperious autocrat. This Part also expounds the components of masculine 
character and perfection, and feminine beauty and loveliness ; gives the 
signs of existing paternal and maternal states of vigor and health, or 
weakness and disease, together with Nature's mating laws, times, and 
requirements ; shows who may, and who must not, marry whom, and 
why ; what combining parental qualities yield superior, and what inferior, 
offspring ; how courtship should, but must not, be begun and conducted, 
and young folks treat each other ; what necessarily augments and deadens 
Love and conjugality, and how to so woo and wed as to make every 
honeymoon preface a honey married life ; gives infallible rules, following 
any of which, much more all, will prevent all conjugal discords, restore 
deadened affection, and redouble marital bliss at will ; shows who may, 
but should not, get divorced ; how and why exclusive Love yields a 
hundred-fold more hymenial luxury than promiscuous, and purity than 
lust ; what uniting laws and conditions enhance, and what diminish, 
progenal excellence and parental pleasure, and how parents can bring 
into being children vastly superior to themselves ; as well as how almost 
infinitely better is a good generation with a poor education, than the 
converse, and that it is to become the regenerator of the race itself ; tells 
woman her specific mission, and how, by right previous self-management, 
she can render her yet unborn extra robust, lovely, loving, moral, re- 
ligious, commercial, mechanical, artistical, poetical, musical, rhetorical, 



PREFACE. v 

intellectual, philosophical, male or female, etc., at her pleasure, and so 
rear them as never to lose any, nor ever need a doctor; keep them too 
healthy and happy to cry by day or night ; make the badness of vulgar 
playmates the very means of rendering her own darlings always better, 
never worse ; secure their implicit obedience and unbounded affection ; 
keep them from all juvenile vices, and inspire them to everything good ; 
mold them just as she would have them ; make the worst good, and good 
angelic, and pilot them safely through puberty, that blighting crisis of 
millions ; render her home a paradise, husband true, and family perfectly 
happy ; and is full of just that kind of knowledge needed by all matrons 
and maidens. In short, 

A wrong Love is the trunk cause, and right the cure, of most human 
degeneracies, diseases, and miseries. Then behold here how to guide and 
keep it " in the way it should go " ; make all " broken hearts " better 
than ever ; preserve juvenile purity, and banish a great evil with all its 
woes from among men. How many soul-and-body crushing experiences 
will it prevent by guarding the young against all wrong, and guiding 
them into all right, love pathways ? Will it not teach them love lessons 
they had better learn here, than frpm associates ? for learn they must. 

Part IV.— SELF AND HUMAN ELEVATION— discusses those 
aspiring, self-perfecting, man-ennobling, polishing, civilizing, sesthetical, 
poetical, artistical, ornamental, mechanical, architectural, histrionic, cos- 
mopolitan, and like other Faculties whose organs are located in the 
crown and along the sides of the head, between the Physical and Moral 
Groups ; and is full of self-and-society-perfecting suggestions and prin- 
ciples. 

Part V.— INTELLECT, MEMORY, AND REASON— analyzes 
and shows how to improve and discipline the mind, and strengthen each 
intellectual Faculty. How much is a good memory of everything worth? 
How much have you lost by forgetting to say or do desired things at the 
right times? How much annual rental could business men, students, 
lawyers, speakers, etc., well afford to pay for a good one over a poor? 
This Part analyzes all kinds of memory and intellect, and shows how to 
acquire knowledge ; prosecute a scholastic education, personal and juve- 
nile ; develop scholarship, eloquence, and sense, man's crowning capac- 
ities ; and unfolds Nature's educational first principles. Training man's 
intellect will save him from all evils and vices, by showing him how much 
happier and better all become by obeying than violating the natural 
laws ; as well as how to utilize Nature's provisions for our enjoyments. 

Part VI.— MAN'S MORAL NATURE— analyzes those highest 
religious Faculties which ally him to angels and to God ; puts him in 
relation with all the theological, spiritual, and ethical truth of the 
universe, including all the doctrines they teach, and practices they com- 
mand ; develop a complete system of natural theology ; solve all mooted 
religious problems by scientific authority ; and furnish an exhaustless 
fountain of religious truth. , 

Did all that is, come by chance f or 

Exists there a Great Supreme Head of this stupendous universe ? And 
if aye, what of His character, attributes, works, worship, and the allegiance 
due from man to his Maker? or, what is the true theology? 

Is our death our last ? or 

Is man immortal? And if immortal, are this life and that to come 



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PREFACE. 



antagonistic ? And if so, had we better forego terrestrial pleasures to 
gain celestial ? Or are both but parts of one continuous whole ? so that 
whatever promotes or curtails either, similarly affects the other? And if 
so, What life here best promotes, and what prevents, the best good of 
both ? 

What of faith, prayer, repentance, pardon, salvation, everlasting 
progress, and kindred doctrines? 

These problems, O man, are the most practically important any can 
ever ask or answer, because there impinge upon them destinies farther 
reaching and more eventful than upon any others whatsoever — too 
important to be either ignored, or left to hypothesis, or to blind, often 
bigoted, and ever varying faiths. All should KNOW, none surmise. 
Nature can not have left these truths hidden, nor even obscure, but, 
instead, lights them up with the full-orbed effulgence of knowledge. 
Our having religious Faculties and organs proves that this whole depart- 
ment of Nature, like every other, has its natural laws, which reduce it to 
scientific certainty, and make morals and religion one of the exact 
natural sciences ; so that there is no more need nor even excuse for past 
or present religious differences, than Jor arithmetical ; for Nature pro- 
claims all her theological laws and truths in and by the analysis and out- 
workings of these moral Faculties — here treated last, because located 
highest up, last to develop and die, and the great pre-determiners of all 
human interests. 

In it behold religious science. 

Part VII. — A RIGHT LIFE, individual and communitarian, applies 
all these laws and teachings to private and public, temporal and eternal 
improvement, by showing wherein these, those, and the other customs, 
and doctrines, and institutions harmonize and conflict with human nature, 
and hence from and to what they require to be changed and amended. 

Phrenology thus becomes the great teacher of the race in each indi- 
vidual, and in all respects. 

Eye-teaching engravings by hundreds illustrate all its parts and points, 
and so simplify and popularize Phrenology that all intelligent amateurs 
can begin and prosecute its study without farther aid, and connoisseurs 
find its deepest philosophies elaborated ; along with a resume of its former 
writings. No labor, no expense, have been spared to render it a standard 
work, presenting in one complete volume both its facts and teachings, 
and applying all to juvenile and self-culture, and a perfect human life — 
ends how exalted ! 

Each Faculty is described in seven degrees of power, which can be 
measured or graded by making 7 signify very large, 6 large, 5 full, 
4 average, 3 moderate, 2 small, and 1 very small ; which enables all those 
correctly marked in its table to read their mental specialties fully 
described throughout this book, business and marriage adaptation in- 
cluded ; with directions for cultivating and restraining whatever requires 
either. , 

N. B. — All the Author ever marked can do all this, just by transferring 
their markings to this table. , 

Each of its new theories, that of vibration in particular, proving from 
their structure just how brain and nerves act in manifesting mind and 
sensation, and showing why this is pleasurable, and that painful, deserves 
close scrutiny as explaining the modus operandi of life itself ; as does its 



PREFACE. vii 

theory of organic formation, showing why and how these vegetables and 
animals have these, and those those, shapes and structures — why kangaroos 
are largest behind, and lions before ; why whales have horizontal tails, 
and fish vertical ; how each bone, muscle, and organ of each insect, 
animal, and person is fashioned just as it is ; thereby giving the true 
basis of all anatomies, all forms, all physiognomies ; as is also its theory 
that Electricity is Nature's great motor power — propels all stars, tides, 
winds, blood, etc. ; so rotates all worlds, as to give each their days, nights, 
seasons, etc. ; and executes all life's sensations, motions, etc. Its new 
theory of improving eyesight, and seeing and reading better up to ninety 
without glasses than with, besides showing all how to leave them off to 
advantage — worth thousands to all approaching fifty — that all pain both 
warns and cures, heals, restores, saves, and results only in goodness and 
happiness ; that heat petrifies ; that alternating between heat and cold is 
Nature's best cure ; that all fluids move by rolling; that pressure promotes 
all functions ; that the octal method of reckoning figures far surpasses 
the decimal, etc., etc. ; each deserves special attention, and will yet 
command assent. Yet 

One generation must come and go before these glorious truths will be 
generally accepted, or even fully understood. 

Objectors to Phrenology are generally treated with that dignified 
silence justly due to their bigoted perversions ; because proving its truth 
both refutes their cavils, and leaves them face to face with their Maker ; 
as well as to that lasting public reproach which surely awaits their short- 
lived triumph. Would Gallileo, would the propounders of any new truth 
advance it by wasting on their narrow-minded opponents those precious 
energies needed for its dissemination? Phrenology is a natural truth, 
and will soon overwhelm all its opponents. Pseudo discoveries, antago- 
nistic to Gall's, are ignored, because unreliable experimentally; yet all of 
his have proved themselves correct on four generations, and in millions 
of persons, of both sexes and all ages. 

To our infinite theme a finite mind can not do justice, and may well 
feel abashed to enter where angels should hardly dare to tread, yet some 
one must at least try ; for the entire race, in most individuals, when not 
making a complete wreck of this most precious entity, existence, falls 
greatly below its possible ends and attainments, just for want of that 
collective knowledge of its elements, organic relations, laws, and right 
management here propounded. 

Finding so much fault with so many gives pain, yet, like those surgical 
operations which cause present agony only to prevent future, is rendered 
necessary by the descent of most existing ideas and customs from far 
before the dark ages ; which must first be extirpated in order to put 
humanity on its natural laws base. Everything ancient deserves scrutiny, 
while the great utilities of all modern inventions and discoveries entitle 
this " new departure " from them to at least a favorable hearing ; yet 
" nothing is set down in malice." 

Philanthropy, not personalty, human weal, not self-interest, to do good, 
not gain popularity, inspire every sentence. And as brevity is the soul of 
authorship, it aims to 

Pack the most ideas possible into the fewest words ; is tersely 1 iconic, 
often using that most expressive style the ablative absolute, unwisely 
ignored by moderns; caters to no epicurean literary fastidiousness, but 



viii PREFACE. 

presents its facts, arguments, and thoughts as clearly yet succinctly as 
possible, using those short Saxon words which express its precise mean- 
ings ; contains nearly one thousand essays on as many vitally important 
subjects, yet nothing the most refined should not learn, and parents 
teach their children, and the grown the growing ; warns youth against 
youthful, and adults against adult, errors ; asks no favors but scrutiny, 
and grants no quarter to old fogyism ; seeks to reach the heads, and mold 
the manners, and brand its ideas right into the innermost souls, of each 
reader ; assumes all the privileges inherent in a scientific exposition of 
man's entire nature and inter-relations ; shows all how to carry their own 
and children's perfections, physical, intellectual, and moral, on and up to 
the highest point attainable ; expounds Nature's deepest, grandest, richest, 
and most useful economies ; and appeals to the hearts and the hard sense 
of all its advocates and disputants. Criticise its mannerisms ye who will, 
but its subject-matter merits the deepest study and reflection. 

An imperious mandate issued fifty years ago from the Supreme Court 
of universal truth, and directed to me in person, hereby obeyed, compels 
all these utterances. Wherein they fail, discredit their authorship ; suc- 
ceed, accredit Phrenology. Humanity, receive or discard ; and bene- 
ficiaries, talk and write it up, or turn its disseminating agents, and 
gratefully remember your benefactor. 

May it improve every reader, and enhance the number and the inborn 
capacities and excellencies of God's children forever ! 

O. S. Fowler. 

753 Broadway, N. Y., 1880. 



EXPLANATIONS. — Superiors, or figures above lines, corresponding with its numbered 
paragraphs, refer to ideas, thoughts, and principles previously presented, and save repeti- 
tions, yet enforce the point in hand. Thus " The Value of Life " is numbered 4, and referred 
to by placing 4 above the line, thus, 4 

The first words, in italics, of every paragraph express its subject or thought, and aided 
by these numbered headings, sections, and chapters, enable readers to glean each part in an 
hour; besides facilitating review. For " Contents " see cover; and, better read with the 
left hand on it. 

Seven degrees of emphasis are used thus — the lowest is double spaced ; the second, ditto, 
with italics ; small capitals the third ; ditto, long-spaced, higher yet ; capitals the highest but 
one, and capitals long-spaced the highest. 

Q, means querist or query ; O, objection or objector ; and A, answer. 



PART I.— ORGANISM, PHRENOLOGY. 

CHAPTER I.— THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

SECTION I.— ITS VALUE, AND IMPROVEMENT. 

i. — Nature is infinitely perfect, throughout. 

A perfect God created her, and impressed His own infinitely perfect 
attributes and entities upon her; and after her completest inspection, 
pronounced her " good." Then how can she be otherwise than absolute 
perfection, both as one grand whole, and throughout all her individual 
parts, as well as in all her mutual adaptations and inter-relations ? 

Her sun, how infinitely glorious, both per se, and in all his adaptations 
to all else in Nature ! — rising, timing each moment of his eternal progress, 
and setting, to the fixed iota of each second, throughout all time ! The 
perfect chronometer of our vast solar system ! Subjecting every living 
thing, even all inert matter, to his periodic sway ! Rousing all vegetable 
life to renewed growth by his vernal advance, and laying them down to 
rest by and during his winter solstice. Measuring each day and night, 
spring and summer, autumn and winter. Graduating his rays of light 
and heat from Aurora's glowing dawn, through sunrise and noon, to sun- 
set and total darkness, lest abrupt changes blind all eyes, and alternately 
freeze and melt all that lives ! Or 

Are her earth, air, water, less perfect ? Or her showers and flowers, 
oceans and seasons, trees and grains, fruits and vegetables? Or any one 
of all her beneficent arrangements for the comforts and luxuries of all 
her creatures? Or either of her laws? or their outworking results? 
Behold throughout all her causes and effects and the infinitudes of 
blessings thus conferred and philosophies thus evolved, the very acme 
of all His divine perfections embodied and promulgated ! 
O. " What ! pain, destruction, and death perfections!" 
A. Yes, each, among her greatest, as we soon demonstrate; besides 
also illustrating this great basilar truth throughout this work. Nor can 
one valid theoretical or practical objection against this perfection of 
Nature be sustained. In short, she is the embodiment of all truth, for 
what is truth but the soul of Nature? And what is Nature but the in- 
carnation of truth ? 



2 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

2. — Life is Nature's most perfect Work. 

She grades her products. All are good, yet some better than others, 
as man compared with fly, sun with glow-worm, etc. Unorganized matter 
is good, both in itself, and in supplying the basilar pre-requisites of life, 
yet greatly improved when transformed into organs ; but that life entity 
which animates and uses them almost infinitely surpasses these organs 
themselves ; which " return to dust " when it departs. " A live dog is 
better than a dead lion." Nature is ever struggling upwards toward 
life, and every form of life toward a higher. How vastly better be a 
gnat than pebble ! Nature is always and everywhere practically demon- 
strating that all living entities surpass inert matter by crowding all her 
domains with all conceivable forms of life ; letting living things lord it 
over unorganized matter, and use it at will ; and all higher forms of life 
all below. Yet - 

Why argue this patent axiomatic law of all things ? 



3. — Human Life is its highest Form. 

Another obvious axiom. God gave man command over all beasts, 
fowls, fish, reptiles, sea and land monsters, and even over winds and tides, 
to make them waft great ships when and where he listeth ; harness steam 
and lightning into his triumphal cars ; discover, fashion, and use any 
and everything he can find any and everywhere -within, upon, and above 
the whole earth, as he pleases. Behold him walking forth erect with 
majesty and power, and all other creatures forever bowed down as in 
abject submission and awe. Adjudged by their works, behold his in 
contrast with theirs — his useful machines, beautiful fabrics, stupendous 
palaces, ocean steamers, with their mud shelters, ground holes, rude 
nests, and utter want of tools, goods, and improvements : him reading, 
writing, enchanting with letters, speech, song ; them only growling, 
lowing, piping, warbling : him ever inventing, originating, reforming ; 
them mostly destroying. Compare his achievements with theirs. His 
lowest far above their highest. Are they beautiful, and not men, women, 
and children, immeasurably more ? Who would, that could, change into 
a beast ? Idiocy, even for an idiot. In any and all respects he excels 
all earth's other productions in aspect, looks, structure, range of capa- 
bilities, and enjoyments, and excellences as much as angels excel 
him ; besides ever fitting himself for angelic life and bliss after death. 
Behold in him God's last and most perfect work ! Summary of all ! 
Anointed and installed as His terrestrial vice-regent and their supreme 
autocrat ! Embodiment of all His divine attributes ! Compendium of 
marvels! Epitome and ultimate end of all that is ! 



ITS VALUE, AND IMPROVEMENT. 3 

4.— Value of Life, and of its Functions. 

To be or ?iot to be, how infinite the difference ! Better be a dog, a 
fly than nothing. Self-existence, how glorious a boon! Pearl of great 
price. That alone which imparts value to all else. How rapturously 
should every human being exult in possessing a body thus perfect, 
emotions so varied and intense, and intellectual Faculties thus numerous 
and powerful. None are as well off as those who have abundance of life 
force ; nor any as destitute as those who lack it. Compared with it all 
else is " vanity of vanities." 

How very few, among earth's teeming millions, at all realize what it is 
to live ; or even to put forth any one of their myriads of functions ! Sight, 
how wonderful, how precious a gift ! Who among all its possessors at 
all realize what it is to be able to discern objects at a distance so incon- 
ceivably great that it takes light hundreds of years to come from them to 
us ! Some a hundred and twenty million times larger than our whole 
earth ; others infinitesimally small ; and myriads at a glance, as grass- 
blades in a lawn, leaves in a forest ; and all so perfectly. How immeasur- 
able the amount of knowledge and pleasure it bestows ! One shot tore 
out both of a hapless soldier's eyes: what pension could repay him? 
How priceless, how precious the gifts of hearing, tasting, feeling, breath- 
ing, moving, and all our other physical functions! How valuable is 
each? How much could any one who loses either well afford to pay for 
its restoration ? Our mental powers far more valuable. How infinitely 
precious each of our family loves, conjugal, parental, filial ! Our instincts, 
Appetite, Self-Defence, Ambition, Caution, etc. 

Our intellectual capacities still more, which tell us all about Nature, 
her laws, facts, and sciences, including reason, God's supreme behest to 
man, which discovers and applies first principles and philosophies to 
promote human happiness, and avoid misery, and attain desired ends. 
Most of all, our angelic moral attributes, Justice, Kindness, Hope, Ca- 
pacity to perceive, adore, love, and become like, our infinitely perfect 
Creator. 

Behold immortality crowning all, and expanding and perfecting all 
forever! Verily, life is the emanation and highest creation of Divinity 
Himself. For it, ho all ye who live, love your terrestrial parents to death 
almost, nor let them want for anything you can supply, and praise God 
forever with your whole might, mind, and soul ! 

O Thou great Inventor and Bestower of existence, with all its capac- 
ities and functions, we fall prostrate before Thee for this infinitely glorious 
benefaction, such as only Thou canst bestow, and as far above what any 
monarchs can give as Thy throne is above theirs, and Thou art above 
them : and we consecrate our entire beings to Thee, in studying and 
obeying Thy natural laws, and making the uttermost possible out of this 
life entity ! 



4 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

5. — The Enjoyments of Life admeasure its Worth. 

Happiness is the only standard of all values whatsoever, inwrought 
throughout the innermost instincts of all sentient beings. Every re- 
cipient of life estimates all things as more or less valuable in exact 
proportion to the pleasures they yield. All prize and seek food, dress, 
sleep, money, and everything else, solely in proportion to the enjoyments 
expected or derived therefrom, and pay the more or less accordingly. 
An investment of one dollar which makes its investor happier than 
another of millions, is worth the more ; and thus of every single thing 
to its every possessor. All human, ail animal instincts are predicated 
upon this self-enjoying basis. Fish instinctively love water, toads marshes, 
crows carrion, lions raw flesh, bovines and equines grains and grasses, 
men and women each other, and all living things love whatever they 
love, solely because made happy, each by what it loves. 

All Nature is ordained on this enjoyment-giving and loving basis, 
from sun to atom, throughout all her products. All instincts center in this 
their grand motor instinct ; all ends in this paramount end. Solely to 
create and experience pleasure is every bodily organ, every mental 
Faculty, ordained — sight to enjoy seeing, and all those ends it is created 
to subserve ; breathing in quaffing luxuriously heaven's exhilarating air, 
and in expending the vital force thus obtained ; brain and nerves in 
making us inexpressibly happy in their action, and results ; and thus 
of all other physical functions. 

Each mental Faculty is expressly adapted to attain this natural end, 
and no other — Kindness to make all needy recipients of its behests happy 
in receiving, and all bestowers still happier in their bestowals ; parental 
love in making parents happy in loving and caring for their children, and 
children still happier in being loved and cared for ; Acquisition in getting 
creature comforts, and the other Faculties in enjoying them ; Appetite in 
eating, and the whole being in expending its nutrition ; Causality in both 
studying and applying causes and effects to obtain ten thousand joy-pro- 
ducing ends ; Adoration in the act of worshiping, and in all those sancti- 
fying influences divine love and worship shed throughout the soul ; and 
thus of Friendship, Hope, Justice, all kinds of Memory, and every other 
part and Factor of body and mind. The needle does not point to its pole 
any more invariably than every element and function of man points to 
pure, unalloyed happiness, all happiness, and nothing else, as their only 
natural result. 

Each person's actual amount of pleasure beggars all description, yet 
varies in each with the degree and quality of life force possessed. Thus a 
philosopher is worth to himself and fellows more than a thousand fools, 
because endowed with that much more of life entity, and that better in 
quality ; while each person's worth varies at different times in proportion 
as each has the more or less, now than then, of this only enjoying entity. 



ITS VALUE, AND IMPROVEMENT. 5 

To attempt an approximate estimate of its value from a few of its 
functions. 

Sleep, how luxurious to those fatigued, yet restless? How much could 
such afford to give for one sound, sweet, soul-and-body invigorating sleep? 
Then how much is this sleeping capacity worth ? "I would give a guinea 
for that hearty youth's appetite for his breakfast ! " said a millionaire dys- 
peptic. " Well you might, for he enjoys his morsel better than you can 
your gold." The starving would pay hundreds of dollars for one "square 
meal " and get their money's worth ; then how much more are good eat. 
ing and digesting powers worth than poor ? And how much more valua 
ble a superb physique throughout, than one feeble and sickly? Cicero 
well says : — 

" Mental pleasures greatly surpass physical." Then what is the grand 
aggregate value of all your emotional, and intellectual, and moral powers, 
added to all your physical, from birth to death ? To all the joys of child- 
hood and adolescence super-add all those half-frenzied delights taken in 
business struggles and projects, ambitional and other efforts, making 
money and using it, and crown all with the intense ecstasies of first love, 
marriage, children, home, friends, social position, study, worship, and all 
else included ; verily, the sum total beggars all conception. Life can and 
should be one ceaseless round of ever fresh delights, so many and common 
that we overlook them. Yet all this barely begins to sum up the possi- 
ble pleasures, and therefore worth, embodied in life. 

6. — Life's Inherent Value is all the Pleasure it can Give. 

None realize how much they do take in eating, nor take a tithe as much 
as they could ; and would if their digestion were perfect, and Appetite 
always regaled with joist what they like best. Think how much ecstatic 
pleasure you actually did take in your first love ; yet you might have taken 
ten, fifty, a hundredfold more, if it had not been blighted or soured almost 
as soon as you began to taste its divine nectar. Instead, suppose you had 
known beforehand just how to perfect this element ; had chosen the very 
one precisely adapted to your specific wants, and each had done just and 
only what completely filled and developed the other's love entity ; had 
super-added all the soul-ravishing delights of just your desired number of 
beau-ideal children, in a home and surroundings precisely to your liking ; 
had been highly respected and trusted among men ; possessed enough, 
but none too much, of creature comforts and luxuries; been an honored 
member of your chosen church and social circle ; enjoyed the books, 
teachers, literary, and other advantages required for your fullest intellect- 
ual culture ; and completely developed every capacity and desire of your 
whole being all the way up from infancy, through maturity, to a ripe old 
age, every moment being crowded with every delight you loved best — 



6 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

how happy in the total aggregate could you then have been ? At least a 
hundredfold happier than you can imagine, because your enjoying capaci- 
ties have been impaired that much. 

O. "Aye, but advancing age reverses this glowing picture." 

A. "Usually does, yet never need to. Hear that cherub child shout with merry 
glee. Yet age should advance his joys, step by step, with his capacities. How 
happy is that tottering boy in tottering ! Yet how far happier in running ? And ever 
redoubling, up to life's meridian. And still more so in the dignified ease and rest of 
advancing age. Life's whole policy, adaptations, and legitimate outworkings, are to 
render all just as happy as they ca?i be and live" And all 

Crowned with immortality, proved in Part V. to be an immortal reality, 
a necessary component of being itself ; as well as that all the actual and 
possible pleasures of this life, compared with those of that to come, are 
as'the mote to the mountain, inconceivable; as eternal experience will yet 
practically demonstrate to us all. Then, ho all ye who live, how much is 
your existence worth to you ? And it is worth to others all the happiness 
you can give them. 

O. " But from this subtract all actual and possible sufferings." 
A. " Not one iota, for reasons given hereafter." 

7. — Enjoy all you can as you go along. 

11 Let us live while we live," is the true policy of all existence ; of which 
" give us day by day our daily bread," neither too much to-day lest it 
mold, nor too little to-morrow, lest we hunger, is one expression, and 
"give me neither poverty nor riches," another. The passing moment is 
the only one enjoyable, or ever enjoyed. Now is the only time the sun 
ever shines, or we live, or can enjoy. Even all anticipated pleasures are 
experienced solely in the present tense ; and all those of memory are but 
repetitions now of those past. Then let us all adopt this first law of life 
as our rule in its management, by making the pursuit of present happiness 
our paramount object ; as it is the instinct of all that lives. Those who 
enjoy the most best please their Creator by putting this His life-giving 
policy into practice. Let all make life one ceaseless round of enjoyments. 

A Hudson River philosophical epicure complained to the dinner-ticket 
collecting steward that he had not made half a steamboat dinner. 

S. "You know my good reason, sir; the adjournment of a convention and its 
rush of a thousand extra passengers the very minute we sat down to dine." 

E. "That excuse is good for you, but utterly fails to satisfy my hunger." 

S. "Keep your ticket ; it will pass next time." 

E. "Take it ; I care nothing for dollars, of which I have plenty, while dinners 
are scarce, and precious." 

S. " You've dined a hundred times before on board without ever finding me short." 



ITS VALUE, AND IMPROVEMENT. 7 

E. "Aye ; yet I have enjoyed only one dinner each day, and can not afford to 
lose this." 

6". "I guarantee, if you dine with me a hundred times more, you'll never find 
me short again." 

E. " Granted all ; but, sir, mark this — my enjoying every day's dinner here- 
fore and hereafter of my whole life, gains me none, so that I can never make up 
for this one's loss." 

His selfishness was despicable, yet philosophy good. Ponder well this 
underlying principle, and apply it to all life's possible enjoyments, from 
birth to death. Each of its seasons come but once, so make the most of 
it : the more so because the full fruition of each promotes that of all its 
successors. 

Make children happy, for this develops their whole beings ; whilst 
making them miserable impairs their life principle itself, and dwarfs their 
entire after-power to experience pleasures ; which making them happy 
now, improves. So let that boy be a boy while a boy, because the more a 
boy during boyhood, the more a man he will be through manhood ; and 
let that girl romp during her only Tom-boy season, for it neither lasts 
long, nor comes back to her ; nor, if curtailed, can she ever become the 
complete woman, in body or mind, its full fruition would render her. A 
spring frost has nipped her budding blossoms, and forestalled their sum- 
mer growth and fall fruitage ; make the most of first love, for a possible 
rowen crop, better than none, is only third-rate ; and thus equally of all 
life's epochs, days, and moments. 

Overworking to-day to do or get this or that, is consummate folly and 
wickedness; for it cuts off power to accomplish and enjoy ten-fold ever 
after. Yet Americans are stark mad in their wild rush and pellmell scram- 
ble after some future good ; whereas all should be content with only what 
they can enjoy getting now, as well as using hereafter. In short, 

Squeeze the utmost pleasure possible out of every passing moment, and 
good. 

O. " This self-indulging doctrine contravenes all restraints and discipline what- 
soever of ourselves and children, even all law and order, and throws wide open all 
the flood-gates of all the appetites and passions ; besides proffering a premium on 
unmitigated selfishness and unbridled lust. One equally subversive of public and 
private morality and good, could hardly be proclaimed." 

A. "Either God blunders i?i creating this ruling passion tor happiness, or you 
err in condemning it. Must all forever crush out this basilar instinct He implants 
in all ? Our natural-laws' doctrine, next in order, shows that he enjoys most who 
best obeys God's laws ; that is, goodness and happiness are like Siamese twins, 
linked indissolubly together, and ever proportionate to each other ; as are also bad- 
ness and suffering ; which wipes your narrow, bigoted dogma right out ; besides 
showing that self-denial antagonizes every primitive end and adaptation of universal 
existence." 



THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 



SECTION IL— THE NATURAL LAWS; THEIR REWARDS, 
AND PUNISHMENTS. 

8. — Their Existence, and the Rationale of Causation. 

Every effect has its specific cause, and every cause produces its own 
natural effect, and no other. This is proved by every fact in Nature, and 
a philosophical axiom so universally admitted as to need only declaration. 
All eyes see, all nerves feel, all life's experiences, even all inert matter, 
attest, and all Nature forever witnesses, this ubiquitous and eternal truth. 
Nothing ever transpires in the starry heavens above, nor upon or within 
the whole earth, except in obedience to their autocratic mandamus ; and 
only as they direct. All stars whirl through their cycles, all motes of 
matter move, winds blow, tides flow, leaves fall, in abject subserviency to 
the tyrannical edict of gravitation. All forms of life and matter are 
swayed throughout by one or another of these unalterable laws, and every 
fact and operation of universal Nature obey their resistless edicts. They 
constitute her active force, her executive officers, her vital principle, her 
soul and quintessence, if not her very self-hood — for "she is wholly made 
up of these laws, and their workings. They alone banish chaos, and cre- 
ate all certainty, all science — that embodiment of truth, that handwriting 
of the Almighty Creator upon all His works. They make all Nature 
scientific by reducing everything in it to certainty. Every natural science 
is but their creature and servant — that of chemistry consisting in those 
natural laws which govern all organic mutations and changes ; of astronomy 
in those which create and regulate all astral movements ; and thus of all 
the other natural sciences. They originate all power, and apply it to the 
production of all results. No change, no function, not one single opera- 
tion in Nature but they create and regulate throughout. No department, 
no single function of the whole universe, but is governed by them. Even 
all " exceptions " are but the operations of some other laws. All knowledge 
consists only in knowing them, and the* facts they create — all arithmetical 
knowledge in knowing numerical laws and facts — and thus of all knowl- 
edge and all science whatsoever. Even all poetry, art, taste, style, etc., 
are creatures and expressions of these identical laws. Therefore, 

All are the more or less learned the more or less they understand these 
laws and their operations, even though they know not how to read ; while 
all who do not understand them are practical ignoramuses, however well 
read in the dead languages, mythology, etc. In short, 

All Nature consists in her ends, and zuays and means of effecting them. 

Causation must have its cause. A natural institute thus stupendous 
yet minute, rolling suns throughout illimitable space, while ruling every 
atom of matter throughout all its mutations from and to everlasting with 
absolute precision and sovereign might, must stand on some commensu- 



THE NATURAL LAWS. g 

rate platform, and effect some specific result even greater than itself ; for 
every workman must exceed his tools. Then what stupendous, most ex- 
alted END. O God ! dost Thou attain, greater, wiser, and deeper than 
this Thy cause-and-effect ordinance ? 

The superlative happiness of all Thy creatures forever 
— an end great and glorious beyond conception — an object 
well worthy of " our father in heaven," and the great 
finale of all that is ! 

By what commensurate means is this divine end attained ? 

By appending specific results to given CONDITIONS, and al- 
ways like results to like conditions — by making the same cause's always 
effect the same results, and then creating volition in every living creature 
which enables each to compass, reach, attain, bring to pass, effect any 
specific ends desired by each, just by putting into operation those means 
which bring them about. Thus A. desires wheat, and gets it by doing 
what produces it ; B. wants pears, and grows them by grafting or planting 
pear-trees ; C. thinks an education would make him happy, and gets it by 
means of books, teachers, colleges, etc. ; D. desires health, and guarantees 
it to himself by learning and using its means, and avoiding known causes 
of disease ; E. wants to see, or do, or say, or hear, something far away, 
and goes there to do it. In short, this cause-and-effect arrangement en- 
ables each and all to bring to pass whatever each desires by using those 
specific means which effect the particular things wished by each. But for 
causation, none could ever promote their enjoyments, or attain any end, 
or do anything whatsoever ; which would render life worthless. How 
could we make ourselves happy, or avoid being miserable, unless there 
pre-existed certain established antecedent and consequent conditions, 
using which always results in what makes us happy, and vice versa ? Thus 
how could we ever feed ourselves if only stones nourished us one day, 
wood another, iron some other, and thousands of other things at random 
at as many different times ? Whereas this cause-and-effect institute tells 
us just what will nourish and what poison us any and every day of 
life. If gravity caused these and those things to ascend, descend, move 
side-wise, forwards, etc., at random, how could we ever build, move, or do 
anything whatever ? Whereas its always causing all things to gravitate 
downwards, enables us to attain pleasurable ends by millions, otherwise 
unattainable. If touching fire burned us at one time and froze us at an- 
other, and so of the other things at other times, we would never dare 
touch anything. If given agricultural conditions produced good crops 
here now, but none there then, we could never raise anything except by 
chance; whereas causation makes given conditions always produce the 
same effects; which enables all to raise good and avoid poor crops by 
using Nature's growth ways and means. But for these natural laws we 
could only passively enjoy and suffer whatever might happen to us; 



IO . THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

whereas Nature achieves her one great end, happiness, by means of this 

most glorious institute of causation, which is to life what sun is to earth. 

For it, ho all ye who live, SHOUT DIVINE HOSANNAHS FOREVER ! 

9. — They embody the Divine Commands. 

God ordains, signs, seals, and issues them to each of His creatures as His 
eternal edicts, His supreme will and testament, from and to everlasting, 
by subjecting all to their imperial sway. They constitute His standard 
scales of eternal justice, His code of universal laws, His ever-sitting tri- 
bunal for adjudicating and enforcing universal right, and His prison for 
punishing all wrong. They alone create all duty, all obligation, and that 
" higher law " which dominates over His universe; and are written into 
the very tenor of existence itself. Each being thrown over all, binds 
all to obey each. The decalogue is infinitely obligatory upon all forever, 
yet derives its binding force not from burning, smoking, thundering Sinai, 
but by their being a partial rescript of these laws, in which all right in- 
heres, and by converse, all wrong ; thereby alone constituting and declar- 
ing whatever is good and bad, right and wrong, holy and sinful, virtuous 
and vicious, pleasurable and painful, any and everywhere, forever. Yet 
their binding clause is mans good, not God's glory ; He being as little 
affected either way by our fulfilling or ignoring them as sun by human 
wishes. So suit yourself about obeying or breaking them. Like all human 
laws they would be utterly useless and nugatory but that 

10. — Happiness is always Appended to their Fulfillment. 

Behold in this the highest possible incentive to obey them. All naturally 
seek pleasure, 5 and finding it only in their obedience, instinctively obey 
them to obtain it. Behold in this arrangement the most benign yet 
potent appeal of their loving Father to the strongest instinct of all His 
creatures to study and obey His commands ; thereby rendering said obe- 
dience instinctive. How infinite the wisdom and goodness evinced in 
framing; this divine ordinance ! Also 

Behold in it the precise measure of your own obedience and goodness, 
item for item, as even-handed as infinite Justice can determine. Meas- 
ured like grain, behold here for every kernel of either, one of the other. 
Not one iota of pleasure ever thrills any sentient creature but it comes 
through some law obeyed so that all enjoy the more or less, as they con- 
form more or less to these laws ; the power of each to enjoy being first 
estimated. Farther, herein each 

Behold your means of rendering yourselves just as happy as you can be 
and live, throughout every life moment and function, simply in and by 
obeying all these laws. Oh, stop and think how glorious the end thus 
thrown within your grasp ; and by a means still more glorious — obeying 
God's natural laws; that is, in and by being good— thus killing the two 



THE NATURAL LAWS. IX 

birds of your own perfect happiness and goodness by this one stone of 
obedience to law. Even more, 

Publicans and sinners learn sensuous lessons in this ordinance ; for even 
all animal luxuries flow to each through this natural laws channel. 
And all 

Love all these lazvs, both as your Creator's 9 will, and your own self-inter- 
est. All shout forever with David, " Oh, how love I Thy natural laws ! 
They are my meat and drink." " In them alone I live, move, and enjoy. 
Their Author is my author, and they are His rules of action imposed upon 
me forever." Let all seats of learning, all churches, all writings, all human 
institutions, resound chiefly with them, and all press all our energies into 
their study and fulfillment. Yet, after all, their happiness embraces only 
half of either their utility or enforcement ; the other half being that 

ii. — All Pain is Consequent on Violating these Laws. 

God drives all from their violations by suffering, as well as entices all 
to their obedience by pleasure ; and this motive is quite as potent as that. 

Pain exists. Our whole world is brimful of suffering and woe. Pan- 
dora's box of all diseases is let loose upon man. He literally groans in 
poverty, wretchedness, heart-rending agony over the death of friends, 
companions, and children. Billions suffer beyond description, and millions 
enough to extort the wish that they had never been born, or that death 
would hasten to deliver them from what is still worse. Yet 

Suffering forms no necessary part of Nature, or function of man. Teeth 
were not made to ache ; nor lungs to torture us with their consumption ; 
nor Destruction to devastate whole nations with carnage, besides all the 
horrors of battle-fields ; nor Appetite to cause all the varied sufferings inci- 
dent to indigestion and drunkenness ; nor Ambition to torture the feet of 
Chinese ladies or waists of civilized fashionables ; nor Self-Esteem to wade 
through fields of blood to thrones of despotism ; nor Devotion to create 
all the abominations of Paganism and bigotries of Christendom ; nor 
Parental Love to torture "with inexpressible anguish at children's death; 
nor Constancy to weep distractedly over a deceased consort, perhaps in 
utter poverty and loneliness, while agonizing diseases prey on the 
bereaved's vitals while hanging over their own yawning graves. Nor is 
there any organ or function in man or arrangement in Nature, the normal 
outworkings of which are painful, or anything but pleasurable. Then why 
all this misery? 

To teach and enforce Nature's lazvs by making pain consequent only on 
their violation. They must^be taught and enforced somehow, or rendered 
nugatory and worthless. Their sole mission is to create that pure bliss 
appended to their observance, the most potent persuasive thereto their 
Inventor could devise ; to which He adds a rtfosuasive therefrom equally 



12 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

potent by appending suffering to their infraction. All instinctively abhor 
pain, and shrink from whatever causes it. Each law teaches, proclaims, 
and enforces itself both by the pleasures flowing from its fulfillment, and 
pains from its violation. What human law but has its penalty, and would 
be worthless without ? No man, woman, child, king, aristocrat, or peasant 
ever broke, can ever break, any one law without suffering therein and there- 
from. Learned and ignorant, great and small, Christian and infidel, prince 
and peasant, stand alike amenable to their rewards and punishments. Obey 
and enjoy, disobey and suffer, is their unalterable fiat to all forever. Their 
sovereign inflexibility serves notice on all never to dare transgress either. 
Nature is one ceaseless round of divine devices for promoting happiness, 
but'this punishing all violations of her law with pain becomes the great 
teacher and moralizer of the whole human race in each of its members, and 
God's archangel of mercy. Then 

All hail this institute of pain. How powerful and incessant a preacher 
of righteousness, and promoter of happiness ! But for it how could we 
know whether or wherein we were bruising, or maiming, or destroying any 
parts of our bodies, or even killing ourselves? Whereas this sentinel 
stands ever on guard all over our bodies and minds, forever compelling us 
to heed its warnings, and stop farther self-injury. This device of attach- 
ing pain to the violation of His laws is as benign as that of uniting pleas- 
ure to their observance. With one, God is forever inspiring us to seek 
their enjoyments by observing them, 10 and with the other, promoting this 
identical end by the terrible sufferings consequent on disobeying them. 

12. — Each Law is Automatic, Rewards and Punishes Itself. 

God proclaims each law by appending its specific pleasure to its fulfill- 
ment, and pain to its infraction. In the very way ye sin ye shall suffer, 
and obey, enjoy ; so that no mists, no uncertainties becloud any one of 
them. Ignorance of them is no excuse, because personal experience is 
their divine preceptor. Those who can not learn them from books and 
teachers must from perpetually feeling this kind of pleasure in and by ful- 
filling this law, and that of pain in violating that law: so that their 
knowledge is being ever thrust on all. Learned and ignorant are ever 
attended by this their ubiquitous monitor. Those without letters or 
teachers have no excuse, because they have only to note each thrill of 
pleasure, each twinge of pain, and ask themselves, "What causes them?" 
which their first instinct compels them to do perpetually. Those who 
obey the affectional laws, yet violate the dietetic, enjoy their families, yet 
suffer from dyspepsia, and vice versa. Those who obey the parental, enjoy 
by loving their children and rearing them right, but who break the conju- 
gal by hating or wronging their consort, thereby enjoy in the former, but 
suffer in the latter, and the converse ; yet would enjoy both if they 
fulfilled both laws. Mrs. A. thinks the world of her church, attending all 



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its meetings, and doing missionary work, and hence enjoys religion 
exceedingly ; yet is sickly, and suffers inexpressibly from headaches, tooth- 
aches, neuralgia, etc., because she outrages the health laws ; whereas if she 
obeyed both kinds of laws, she would enjoy in both respects, and be as 
happy physically as she now is religiously ; and the converse. The check- 
ered lives of many are thus accounted for. Observation will enable 
all to trace all their joys and sufferings up to their precise causes, and 
ever afterward promote the former by repeating their causes, and prevent 
the latter by avoiding theirs. 

In the day thou sinnest thou shalt suffer. These Natural law accounts 
must be settled on sight. Nature always exacts pay down ; yet often 
continues paying ever after. So run up no accounts in hopes of present 
credits and future payments. By this present pleasure and pain ar- 
rangement, 

Each law is its own herald, court, lawyer, judge, jury,, sheriff, and 
executioner ; being omniscient and omnipresent to see that the last iota 
of desert are enforced, both ways. No " ends of the earth " are far enough 
off, nor any hiding-place so hidden, nor any one high or low enough 
to escape them. Obeying any one law a little gives a little or ten times 
more, that much more pleasure ; and the converse as to pain and suffer- 
ing ; and both as accurately as divine scales can proportio'n them. Then 
as you love yourself, keep perpetually inquiring all through life, 

What law obeyed gives vie this pleasure ; broken, that pain? and keep 
up this research till sure that you have found the true cause of each. 
Turn a natural laws detective, and follow out all hints and cues ; thinking 
what the cause is not, as well as is. Nor need you have any doubt ; for 
God thus makes them as patent as His sun. And when you have once 
found them all out, you can avoid all pain by avoiding its cause ; and fill 
your whole being brimful of enjoyment, by observing them all. Herein 

Behold your means of securing those precise kinds of enjoyments you 
relish best. As if, seated at your heavenly Father's table, loaded down 
with every luxury His Paternal head and heart could devise and procure, 
He thus hands you His "bill of fare," saying, "What will you have? 
and how much of each?" adding, " Eat on till you want no more." By 
obeying this law thus much, help yourself to so much of this kind of 
pleasure, and by fulfilling that law to that much, of that luxury. Which 
do you prefer? and how much of each? — family felicities? or com- 
mercial success? or ambitional honors? or carnal pleasures? or epicurean 
gusto? or fashionable notoriety? or aesthetic? or scholastic? or moral? 
or devotional ? or what ? Each help yourself. And if ever you see 
anything else you like better, change dishes by substituting other courses. 

How vast the amount of enjoyment and goodness thus conferred on 
all Thy creatures through all time, all eternity ! O what a motive for 
studying and obeying Thy commandments! 



14 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE, 

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13. — All Experiences teach and enforce these Laws. 

God must publish all His laws somehow, to all His subjects, or be 
unjust for punishing all those necessarily ignorant of them ; and brands 
them right into the innermost consciousness of all, philosophers and fools, 
learned and ignorant, by their every moment's experiences ; so that learn- 
ing them does not depend on education, but, instead, is compulsory. All 
do and must enjoy or suffer every waking moment, from birth to death, 
and much in unconscious sleep. Our pains are often so excruciating and 
pleasures so ecstatic as to compel our notice. Sensation is our most pow- 
erful sense, and the basis of all our other senses. As none can touch fire 
without knowing it, so all pains, sharp, chronic, and dull, compel notice, 
even when hardly realized ; while all pleasures make themselves felt even 
unconsciously. There is that in both pains and pleasures which commands 
and compels, cognizance. 

"Experience keeps a dear school," but dolts will learn in no other, yet 
have to in this. Think how effective her teachings, and how little we 
learn from books in comparison. Who ever know much about religion, 
however well read in scholastic theology, any farther than they have 
" experienced " its spirit power infusing their innermost souls? And thus 
of the loves, etc. Two youth start together to fit themselves for store- 
keeping, one by learning all a collegiate curriculum can teach, the other by 
a store-keeping experience ; which will succeed best ? Are book-farmers 
half as successful as practical ones? or artisans? or speakers? Does 
studying poetry make poets? " Practice makes perfect." Experience is 
man's great teacher in all departments of life ; but most in morals. 
" Burnt children dread fire," and sufferers of all kinds remember and 
instinctively shrink from their repetition. Swine will eat rum cherries 
but once. Cattle goaded once by a barbed wire fence can never be got 
near one afterward.- The sagacious elephant, Romeo, once broke through 
a bridge by his ponderosity, and twenty years later could neither be forced 
nor coaxed upon it. All sentient life is constituted on this underlying 
principle of "live and learn." None can possibly live without learning in 
and by living. All who can and can not read can and must remember 
their own experiences, and those dearest bought the most perfectly. In 
short, learning from every experience is an inherent factor of all life. 
Learning what ? These natural laws ; that is, God's mandates ; 9 for they 
are just what every experience, every event of life, teaches. 

Others' experiences, both good and bad, also teach almost equally 
with our own. What we see we know. Eyes are good schoolmasters. Be- 
hold all the experiences of all sentient beings forever proclaiming all God's 
natural laws to all throughout all His realms, from everlasting to everlast- 
ing, and all forever learning them! Behold this experimental preacher of 
righteousness and goodness as a natural laws Professor and Preceptor! 



THE NATURAL LAWS. j$ 

Behold the whole universe the school-house, and all the happiness ex- 
perienced by all ever persuading all to obey and enjoy evermore, and all 
suffering forever dissuading every sufferer from sinning ever after. 
Behold another Divine ordinance no less benign, namely: — 

15. — Suffering turns all Evil into Good, all Vice into Virtue. 

This is its natural adaptation, and necessary result. All who suffer 
pain shrink from it, and seek out and avoid its cause. The stupider you 
are, the more suffering Nature must take to pound this law-obeying truth 
into you, and thresh out all sinful proclivities ; but sooner or later give 
in, break down, you must ; for God is He who chastiseth, and only to 
save you from future sins and suffering: and what He undertakes, He 
does effectually. 

This principle overthrows Paine s logic, that " if God is infinitely good, 
and powerful, and wise, He could and would have excluded pain from His 
universe," by showing that it is His most beneficent policy ; making even 
His infinite Destruction subserve His infinite Kindness. This Divine 
policy shows that 

There is no " bad, worse, worst," but only " good, better, best " ; that 
no evil ever was or ever can be without being turned right into a means 
of goodness and happiness by this Divine invention ; that all things do 
and must work out only good to all, nolens volens, whether they love God 
or not, have faith or lack it, are savage or civilized, in and by suffering 
begetting sorrow for it, and its cause, which makes all 'sufferers better, 
and resolves to " sin no more." 

Nature is thus ever punishing out all our faults, and making those who 
sin the most therefore the best. Christ's prodigal-son doctrine illustrates 
just this, and nothing else. His riotous living eventuated in " more re- 
joicing in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-nine 
just men who need no repentance." High authority this, and stating 
this doctrine that all seeming evils work out only good as clearly and 
forcibly as only Christ could state it. The very "wrath of man shall 
praise God." In this ordinance behold a higher phase of divine goodness 
than appending happiness to law obeyed ! and pain to violated law. Then 

All hail this punitive principle. Pain, all hail. What an institution 
of learning ! How great a Preceptor in righteousness a dissuasive from 
all wrong, this moral disinfectant of the universe ! 

Even a personal devil, if one exists, by this law is made a missionary 
of virtue and happiness to each of his myriad victims by its overruling 
every twinge of pain he ever causes to make them the happier and better 
ever after ; thereby compelling him to serve God by advancing the ultimate 
goodness and happiness of all His creatures ! Even more of this Divine 
goodness yet. 



1 6 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

14. — Pain cures. All Sufferings yield double Pleasures. 

All inflammations heal. All blood drawn from inflamed parts is full of 
fibrinous string; because inflammation dams up the blood and organizes 
its fibrin so as to use it in patching wounds and restoring lesions ; thus 
healing in and by " the very act " of paining. All colds cure by ejecting 
from the system through lungs and head that refuse clogging matter which 
induces them by first hindering the .circulation, as we show hereafter. All 
fevers are internal fires for consuming that waste matter which impedes 
the life force, and, rightly managed, leave all who suffer from them better 
for years. All neuralgia, rheumatism, aches, etc., burn up that morbid 
matter which causes them. All admit that all boils leave their victims 
better than they find them ; and thus of small-pox, and all other cutane- 
ous excretions. Fever sores are but the painful expulsion of morbid mat- 
ter which would give greater pain if not ejected. When your head aches 
know that it is curing itself ; but be alarmed when it feels numb. Those 
agonies which precede mortification are ordained to wake up the sufferer 
to do what will help it expel its cause ; yet the moment it commences it 
both signs the patient's death-warrant, and stops all farther suffering, 
which would be useless. Fatal shots always benumb, and thus rob death 
of all its terrors ; and all who die lose their sentient principle the more the 
nearer they approach to death ; and we prove hereafter that the dying 
process itself is inherently pleasurable, never painful. God inflicts all suf- 
fering never for " His own glory," but only for our own good. Universal 
facts prove that this is the Divine policy throughout. 

All mental sufferings cure their causes. Thus all love disappointments 
generate hatred for their ex-object, or else wean the broken-hearted from 
life, and help fit them for immortal joys : and thus of loss of friends by 
desertion or death, loss of property, fear, shame, and all mental anguish 
whatsoever. God's great actuating principle obviously is to make all His 
■creatures happy, only happy, and that continually, physically and men- 
tally ; and the happier through all suffering than they could possibly be 
without it. 

This "policy" operates by wholesale. All wars inflict untold individual 
agony only to effect a thousandfold more good, by breaking up some 
chronic wrong, and changing both belligerents only for good. One 
season of cholera or pestilence makes all beholding survivors search 
out and avoid their procuring causes ; and this, of all other public evils, 
turned by this law into public benefactions. The determining principle 
is this : 

Is pain curative ? or is it vindictive ? a blessing, or a curse ? Our prin- 
ciple, that pain is a double good, teaches and enforces the natural laws, 
and then cures its own wounds, presents the Deity and His government 
in a light infinitely benign and all-glorious, in thus bringing all good out 



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of all evil, and defends them against all aspersions of vindictiveness in- 
herent in its converse. 

Behold these quadruple arrangements of natural laws' pain curative — 
four times over — happiness appended to their obedience, suffering to their 
violation, experience forever teaching them to all sentient beings, and 
persuading and compelling all to obey them, and thereby forever pro- 
gressing in knowledge, righteousness, happiness, and goodness — forever 
advancing toward the Divine throne ! 

Behold the ultimate salvation from all sin and suffering compulsory, 
not voluntary ; thrust upon all, not contingent on faith or works. Be- 
hold in these four Divine institutes God's infinite wisdom and goodness 
forever drawing and pushing every recipient of life on and up the plane 
of infinite progress in a knowledge of His laws and character and in eternal 
purity and happiness in conforming to them. Behold the God we wor- 
ship, and adore Him with your entire being. O how good and great a 
God is God ! Dispute this logic or this glorious issue of life to each of 
its recipients, any who can. 

16. — All should study all these Natural Laws ! 

All knowledge consists in knozving them and the facts they create : 
therefore all students of science should make them their text-books. 
Every scientist should be a professor of this natural law, or of that. All 
preachers should preach and expound them as Divine commandments; 9 
all books make one or more of them their trunk subject, followed out 
through its branches to its utilitarian fruitages ; all human laws should be 
but their outgrowth; all judgments but reiterations of their decisions; all 
religious creeds but their exponents, and all their disciples the living ex- 
ponents of one law or another ; and all studies grouped around this nat- 
ural laws trunk — numerations as a natural law, and each arithmetical 
rule as its sub-law. Please note how this general plan would simplify, and 
utilize, and promote all forms of study. Would or would not such a "full 
course" fit students for life's struggles and duties far better than existing 
scholastic curriculums ? besides teaching and enforcing morality, and pro- 
moting success. Why waste the precious time and sparse vitality of 
darling youth on the dead languages, or mythological vagaries? or on their 
own daily immoralities and nightly reveries? or on chewing or smoking? 
They would never break down in health, or violate any of the natural 
laws, if their professors taught and practiced them. 

SECTION III.— SOME OF THESE LAWS, HITHERTO UNNO- 
TICED AS SUCH. 
17. — Rotation the Law of all fluid Motion. Its Rationale. 

A natural law, how stupendous an institute ! Extending throughout 
all extent ! Governing all other worlds equally with our own ! Enduring 



1 8* THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

from and to everlasting ! Controlling every function of its department 
with tyrannical sovereignty ! An edict of the Almighty ! inimitably ap- 
plicable to human weal ! Thus 

Gravity sways all the countless worlds existing throughout infinite 
space with giant power from their beginning ; lords it over every single 
thing upon and within them all, and over every particle of matter they 
contait} ; helps every breather in both inhaling and expelling all the 
breaths ever drawn, besides lifting them to prevent their return ; aids every 
motion and sensation ; and is omnipresent, omnipotent, and eternal ! 

Discovering any law, how great a discovery ! and applying any to any 
new use, as steam to machinery, electricity to telegraphy, every invention 
included, how great a human good ! Those who do either, should want 
for nothing. 

Only a part of Nature's laws have been recognized as such; every now 
and then others are thrusting themselves upon public attention. We pro- 
pound four hitherto unmentioned. 

All fluids move by rolling along, none ever by sliding. Note this 
universal fact first, next its reason. On a " cold, frosty morning," when 
the heat of ascending smoke makes a white fog which shows just how it 
moves. 

1. See all smoke ascend by rolling, never by sliding up in straight lines — 
not here and there a rolling flake, but all around and all along its ascend- 
ing column. Whether going straight up or obliquely, it moves only by roll- 
ing ; and equally so of all bituminous smoke from locomotives, factories, 
rolling-mills, and all bituminous combustions. All burning bush, wood, 
whatever smokes, all conflagrations, great and small, equally illustrate this 
rolling law. 

2. All blazes twist as they rise, and flake off into curling forks. None 
ever saw any blaze ascend in a straight shaft. 

3. All smoking volcanoes conform to and illustrate this rolling, curling, 
twisting law. None ever rise in straight lines. 

4. All steam rolls whenever passing from one place to another. See this 
great fact illustrated in every curl of every puff of steam from every single 
locomotive, whistle, and steam escapement whatsoever, both moving and 
standing. See all winds curling into all steam jets as they move along 
together. 

5. All steam from all heated animals, manure heaps, and whatever 
gives off steaming perspiration, conform to and illustrate this great rotat- 
ing law. 

6. All breaths rise spirally, as seen in all the breaths of all breathers, 
whenever any fog, or atmospheric dust, or cold weather, enables us to ob- 
serve its movements. Of course it moves thus at all other times. 

7. Air let loose wider water rolls up and this same principle gives it the 
spherical form, boiling and bubbling upward, never sliding like an arrow. 



SOME OF THESE LAWS, HITHERTO UNNOTICED. 19 

8. All rifles carry faster and farther than smooth bores, solely by their 
whirling motion displacing the air they pass through, in accord with this 
law ; that is, pushing it one side easier by twisting than by shoving. 

9. All moving liquids rotate onward. Pour together clear and muddy 
waters, or liquids of different colors, and see this great fact illustrated in 
every part of either while commingling with the other. 

10. All water runs i?i eddies, and only by their means. Whoever saw it 
descend in straight lines ? It undulates as it leaves your pitcher, and winds 
as it falls. 

11. All hot water boils up in all vessels, great and small, at all times 
and under all circumstances. See it rolling along on a right hot stove. 

12. All liquid escapements twist out, as from all faucets; never issue 
straight. On lifting the stopper from the bottom of your bowl, the emp- 
tying water ' whirls itself out, instead of sliding, and usually from right 
to left — the same way that vines climb — that is, against the sun, for the 
sun only seems to go from east to west because the earth moves from 
west to east — probably in obedience to another still interior motive law. 

13. All rivers roll over sidewise. Proved thus — all branches entering 
on their descending right sides have much deeper mouths than those on 
their left ; because their rolling over digs out their right and carries the 
debris down, but partly dams up their left, so that it settles and becomes 
bars and shoals. 

14. More water runs out through a tumid-shaped hole than a straight, as 
every experiment proves ; because the former facilitates this rotation and 
therefore exit. You who purchase water by the inch, try this tunnel- 
hole if you would play sharp on its seller, and profit its buyer. 

15. The tops of all liquids move the fastest. Note these experimental 
proofs. Dust*has settled on top of any liquid. Pour it out slowly and 
see the dust run off first. Cream has risen on top of milk, and runs off 
first when poured off slowly ; and the more cream the slower poured. 

16. All rivers flow at their surfaces mainly, and the slower the deeper 
down. All their ripples and eddies are created by this rotating principle ; 
ripples being only horizontal, and eddies perpendicular whirls ; the former 
over and over, the latter round and round. All see that this is the natural 
way all liquids move. 

17. All rapids boil up as from great chaldrons, which they could not do 
if they slid down ; and rise several feet higher on each side than in their 
centers, because their rapidest running top-water pitches down the most 
in their middle, which presses it up most at their sides. 

18. All waterfalls curl under, as seen in all cascades, mill-dams, etc., and 
most perceptibly in Niagara Falls and Rapids ; all above being rolled up 
into curves and waves, all below boiling, whirling, twisting. It curves 
over its edges and rolls down whilst falling, and boils up because it rolls 
down as it falls ; and from both bridges and both banks from the begin- 



2o THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

ning of its rapids until it rolls out into Lake Ontario not one straight line 
in any part of its rushing descent. 

19. All sea-waves roll up on their beaches and rocks, and roll over in 
forming all their sea-caps. 

20. Rivers must descend over rough bottoms and along impeding sides. 
Now, sliding upon and past them, would greatly retard their waters, which 
would wear and gorge their channels, especially in all deep waters, the 
weight of which is immense ; and this blocking up at their bottom would 
arrest their flow on top, and their friction almost dam them up, and flood 
and wash out all bottom lands ; whereas their rolling over these rough 
places, and. their top waters over their bottom, passes on an immense vol- 
ume of water with the least possible friction, detention, and motive power. 

21. Wind by sliding over rivers, with over a ton's weight on each square 
foot, would almost dam them up when blowing up stream, empty them 
when blowing down, and press their waters up over their sides when 
blowing obliquely across them — all prevented by their rolling along over 
them ; and thus of billions of lateral obstructions. 

22. A foot jet of hot steam or smoke rises because light. Now, if it slid 
up, it must meet a pressure of 15 X36X 12=6480 pounds per foot, which 
would keep it down. With this proportionate pressure, what could lift 
our breath above our mouths ? Yet if it stayed down around them, we 
must change our places at every breath, or suffocate at least when asleep, 
by re-breathing our spent and poisoned breaths — all obviated by their ris- 
ing easily by rolling up. 

23. All molten metals roll along when they move. Who ever saw quick- 
silver slide along without rolling? and thus of molten iron, silver, lead, 
etc. ? And shot are made round by rolling over and over in descending, 
all prongs catching the most air, which whirls it over and over till all sides 
are rounded up. 

24. That great maelstrom off Iceland is caused by the warmer and there- 
fore lighter gulf waters rolling in with those colder and heavier from the 
frozen sea ; their commingling warming the northern waters enough for 
that piscatory breeding and growth which supports fowls, seals, whales, 
and man. A like current exists in the Pacific waters, less rapid because 
broader, greatly in the interest of commerce by ships taking different 
currents in different latitudes and longitudes, according as they require to 
be speeded in this or that direction. 

25. Air always moves in circles. All hurricanes wring off all tree 
tops and branches by blowing hardest on one side. All eyes can see all 
branches and all trees partly twisted in strong winds, and feel themselves 
half turned around by every strong gust. 

26. Whirlwinds are obviously named from their whirling all they lift 
round' and round, instead of shoving them along the ground. Why so 
many persons carried by them so far with so little injury? Because 



SOME OF THESE LAWS HITHERTO UNNOTICED. 2 I 

whirled up, transported, and then whirled out of their middle; which 
moves fastest and lets down on its less rapid borders. If pushed along, 
they would be flung against everything in their current, and dashed to 
pieces. And all are let down gently, instead of falling hard ; because this 
whirling wind half counteracts their gravity. 

27. This whirling upwards lifts off roofs, instead of flattening down 
houses straight, as currents must needs do. 

28. All storms move in circles, the greater or less as they last longer or 
shorter. Ask the Signal Service. A shower is a mile or two through, 
its winds blowing one way at the beginning, and another at its close ; 
because it sweeps on till it brings us on the opposite side of its circle; 
while long storms usually start near or below the equator, are hundreds 
of miles in diameter, and move north-east about railroad speed ; for the 
printed accounts of storms " at the front " or from Georgia or Mississippi 
or Texas, reached us about with the storm they described. 

29. A change of wind in any storm indicates its closing soon ; because 
its passage has brought us to its farther rim — true equally of wind storms. 
" Old Prob " is summoned as our witness. All these 29 and all other great 
ranges of facts, without one counter range, prove by induction on the 
grandest and minutest scales that 

All fluids roll onward, none slide. 

Some uiilitariaji rationale underlies every natural law, each being a 
sine qua non necessity. Several useful, even indispensable ends are 
wrought out by this rotation of fluids, among which are : — 

1. Greater ease of motion, by obviating friction. All motion must 
transpire by sliding or rolling, and perfect Nature will choose the one 
which gives her the most motion with the least friction, or loss of power. 
Then which does this ? Motion by rolling several fold — proved thus : 
Make a given team haul all it can on ice. Now mount several times 
more on wheels, and it can haul this load much easier ; and loaded wheels 
would slide on ice if they slid easier than rolled. We use sleds, skighs, 
etc., because easier loaded. This shows why wheels are employed almost 
exclusively in all transit by railways, steamboats, wheeled vehicles, etc. 
And all bullion could be rolled far easier than carried, if cast in balls in- 
stead of bars or " bricks." 

2. Fluids must intermingle ; else how could they be disseminated, 
offensive odors dissipated, agreeable diffused, etc. ? 

All expelled breath and animal effluvia, rendered poisonous by an 
excess of carbon, are just what all vegetables require for their growth ; 
yet it can be conveyed from animal to vegetable only by being first dif- 
fused through the atmosphere. How could we enjoy lemonade unless its 
sweet and sour were well mingled ? and thus of other drinks. For a 
thousand other like reasons, various fluids, gases, odors, etc., must be 
amalgamated and intermingled ; which this rotation effects by throwing off 



2 2 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE, 

flakes from that in motion to that at rest, both of which mix in with each 
other till they become another fluid, composed of both. Pour muddy water 
into clear, or different colored fluids together, and see how flaking and re- 
flaking commingles them perfectly. Your eyes are your demonstrators. 

Other facts and quo modo reasons will suggest themselves to intelligent 
readers as proofs and illustrations of this great natural rolling law of all 
moving fluids ; yet it is rendered sufficiently apparent already. Is it not 
singular that, with all these great ranges of inductive facts everywhere so 
patent to all beholders, none have noticed this rotating law as such, 
though thus demonstrated by induction on a scale so large and obvious ? 

1 8. — Pressure Promotes Action, and is Necessary to it. 

All action transpires under pressure, and is promoted by it. Air 
presses everywhere upon everything, fifteen pounds per square inch, or 
over a ton to every square foot. From ten to twenty tons bearing on each 
person forever ! What a burden, unless turned by this law into a bless- 
ing! Might we not expect Nature to turn it into some great practical 
utility? She does. 

Wind, only air in motion, puts forth an amount of pressure incalcu- 
lable and fearful. That dead, heavy, steady blow on western prairie and 
Rocky Mountain plain, is really tremendous. What can well stand before 
it ? The almost infinite power of the hurricane — what description can 
do it justice? 

Water exerts a pressure still greater upon all its inhabitants, and is so 
great that giant powder exploded upon a flat rock shivers it, because 
expansion downward into the rock itself is easier than upward against 
this incumbent aqueous weight. The river's steady current ; the tide's 
resistless flow ; the cataract's ceaseless dash ; the flood's mighty rush, 
sweeping all before it, and bearing on its brawny bosom ponderous 
masses as if they were feathers, etc., but attest the pressure created by 
water in motion. 

The circulation of sap, etc., is probably effected chiefly by this atmos- 
pheric pressure upon the bark, pushing the underlying sap upward, aided 
by electricity, and pressing on each side of each twig and leaf, thereby 
balancing itself ; and capillary attraction is doubtless effected chiefly by 
this means. 

The blood is retur?ied to the heart by being squeezed along the veins, 
partly by muscular and atmospheric pressure on them. Exercise pro- 
motes circulation by every muscular contraction squeezing the blood for- 
ward : valves prevent its going backward. 

The muscles act best under pressure. Laborers work easiest with a 
belt drawn tightly around the waist ; and hence the Biblical " girding of 
the loins," and the girdle worn by athletes ; while dancers toss their 
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laced snugly from instep to calf, furnishing a fulcrum for their muscles to 
react against ; yet moccasons fail to furnish this pressure, and are very 
hard to walk in. 

Sensation is obviously effected only by external objects pressing upon 
nervous surfaces. They are expressly adapted in structure, and spread 
all over animal bodies, Crustacea not excepted, solely to receive and 
diagnose all kinds of pressures, which are pleasurable when this contact 
benefits, but painful when it injures. What but pressure by contact 
against all animal surfaces guards their internal organisms ? Pressure also 
executes all the other senses. Is not audition effected by vibrating air 
pressing on the ear-drum ; taste by contact of flavors with the tasting 
nerves, and smell by odors pressed by the atmosphere on the olfactories ? 

Breathing is effected throughout by pressure — the air always and 
everywhere pressing through mouth and nostrils into the lungs when it 
can ; the diaphragm pressing down upon the lower viscera to make a 
vacuum which the upward pressure of the ribs re-enlarges, by which we 
inspire ; and expire by the viscera pressing upwards and ribs downward ; 
and the colder outside air crowding the warm breath upward, lest it re- 
enter. 

Every speaking instrumentality is resolvable into pressure. Muscles 
contracting from all sides upon the lungs, supply that first prerequisite 
of all vocal utterances, compressed air ; which is thereby pressed through 
the throat, where inner pressures modulate it this way and that to create 
these and those articulate sounds ; while tongue, lips, and roof of the 
mouth, pressing against each other and teeth and gums ; give other forms 
of this pressure on each ; and as we desire to give the one the greater em- 
phasis to any word or sentence, we instinctively impress the more pres- 
sure on the one we desire to impress most. 

Nature employs eight other necessary instances of this pressure in in- 
itiating life, unnoticed though palpable; and the greater this pressure the 
more life, vigor, and power. But — 

Pressure as manifesting mind furnishes perhaps our best examples of 
this law. We soon prove that the brain is the organ of the mind ; that 
the mental function is created by undulations in its gelatinous surface ; 
and that blood, by filling the skull dome full, squeezes this surface up 
against the smooth inside surface of the skull — the more snugly the more 
blood there is in the brain ; which renders these undulations the more 
rapid and violent, just as the beaten drumhead vibrates the more rapidly 
and loudly as it is strained the tighter — a principle we shall soon fully 
explain. But 

As practically useful axi illustration of this law as any is that 

19. — Pressing Eyelids ox Eyes promotes and Shortens Sight. 
Spectacles are unnecessary, and their use at all ages is injurious ; partly 
because they render the eves weak from inertia ; but more because the 



24 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

two glasses often have different focii, or one longer-sighted than the 
other ; besides almost always being wider apart or nearer together than 
the eyes. God never made eyes so bunglingly as to need supplementary 
glasses in ordinary sight. Their cost, too, is something to many persons ; 
especially since so many are lost or damaged. 

I have made this most valuable discovery that spectacles are unneces- 
sary, are injurious, thus: I used them from my forty-seventh till my 
sixty-fourth year, as a matter of course, thinking all had to use them to 
counteract that " long sight " induced by age. My great discovery of 
seeing better without glasses than with, even down to old age, and pro- 
moting sharp and far sight during all ages, was incidentally thrust upon 
me as follows : — 

When about forty-seven, my sight became so long that I had to hold 
what I read too far off to see distinctly after sundown ; which I shortened 
up by using spectacles. This long sight kept growing on me, so that I 
found them more and more necessary by day as well as night, and those 
still stronger or older, till I supposed I had to use them, like all other 
elderly persons, whenever I read or wrote ; and finally an older pair by 
night than day. 

/ read and wrote at home summers with glasses, yet did little of 
either the other nine months while lecturing, but marked my charts 
without them, because I could see just enough to tell in which column 
to place the figures required for each Faculty, and designate each by their 
order, length, etc. ; and found I could read better when I closed my lect- 
uring seasons than when I began them. I used glasses constantly while 
preparing the copy and reading the proofs of " Sexual Science " in 1869 ; 
and noticed that they were much more necessary when I finished than 
when I began it ; yet that I could do better without them the year after. 
This surprised me, and made me ask myself — why ? I wrote " Physio- 
logical Science" and " Religious Science" in the summer of 1870, using 
glasses, when my sight again retrograded ; yet I could see better without 
them the next winter, when I read and wrote little, but marked my 
charts without them. In 1872 — 

A very bright girl of seven, brought for examination, with eyes sharp- 
ened by being deaf, asked her mother, " What makes that old man keep 
squinting so ? " playfully imitating me. This fastened my attention on 
the fact that I did keep drawing my eyelids down on my eyes, all the 
time while marking charts, so as almost to shut them up, leaving only 
a small opening for light. On sitting down to " Creative Science," I pre- 
pared copy and read proof in 1875, 

Without glasses fro7n June till September, whose elongating evenings 
required me to work by a country light, when I again' used glasses by 
lamplight, thinking, of course, after beginning to use them, I could not 
work at my desk without them by day ; whereas, to my great surprise 



SOME OF THESE LAWS HITHERTO UNNOTICED. 25 

and delight, I found I could write and read proof without them by day 
while using them at night ! I now do almost wholly without them, even 
in reading proof, which requires the sharpest sight, and can read the 
finest print without them; and the better without them the less I use 
them — though I have not yet learned to read without light — and use 
them only in a poor evening light ; conscious that the less I use them 
now, the better I can see without them hereafter. I can also see objects 
at a distance now, about as well as ever. 

I am delighted beyond measure at this restoration and improvement 
of my natural sight, which I supposed permanently impaired for life. A 
fortune left me could not please me a tithe as much. Just think what 
sight is worth, and then measure the value of its prolongation into and 
throughout old age ! The utility of this discovery to all who will prac- 
tice it is incalculable, and its practical application almost ridiculously 
easy, and simply this : — Keep on reading and writing without glasses, as 
usual, after your sight begins to grow long, meanwhile pressing or squeez- 
ing your eyelids down on your half open eyes; that is, squinting, just 
as you do involuntarily when you look at things very small, or desire 
to see them extra plainly, or a great way off. 

The Indian Chief Mangus Colorado, when ninety, could tell every per- 
son passing between house and barn from his little hill ten miles off by 
measure, doubtless by this very means ; and all old persons I have ever 
observed, who read without glasses, involuntarily employ this squinting 
means of pressing or drawing the eyelids down upon their partly open 
eyes. Any and everybody can test this principle by looking at any far-off 
or small object, and then squinting on it, when they can see it much more 
plainly and clearly. Try it. 

N.B. — The eyes are not to be touched or pressed by the fingers, but 
only with the eyelids. A few facts : At a lecture in Boston I sold a 
pamphlet containing these directions, and when at a lecture a week later 
I again recommended it, a listener arose, and, before three thousand 
people, said : 

" I have been obliged to use glasses for years in reading my morning paper, but 
bought this pamphlet a week ago, followed its prescriptions, and can now read 
better without glasses than I could before with." 

"I bought this pamphlet a week ago in Galesburg, 111.; had to use glasses before ; 
can now read better without them than before with." — A hearer in Rochester, N. Y. 

I never heard any other testimony. Only a little persistent practice will 
suffice to enable all who have worn glasses for years to lay them aside, 
and see better without them than before with ; and the easier the longer 
they try it. 

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26 THF FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

demonstrated, that all pressure applied to organs promotes their func- 
tions, 17 and the other the optical law that 

Eyelid pressure on the eyes rounds them up. 

The cause of long sight in elderly people is the flattening or shorten- 
ing of their eyes from front to rear, and their rounding at their sides ; 
which throws their visual focus the further off the flatter they become, 
till the reader has to hold his book too far off to see distinctly ; which 
wearing round-glassed spectacles counteracts ; whereas this eyelid squint- 
ing elongates the eyes by the eyelids pressing on the sides of the eyes, and 
not pressing on their open front and rear ; just as pressing any elastic 
globe on opposite sides shortens it on the sides pressed yet elongates it 
on the unpressed sides. This point is important enough to warrant this 
repetition in the form of a dialogue : 

" What causes the long sight of age ? " 
" The increased flatte fling of the eyes from front to rear." 
" How can this natural process be counteracted, and long sight shortened ? " 
"By squeezing the sides of the eye with the eyelids, that- is, by squinting, as all 
instinctively do whenever they need sharp sight, and in proportion thereto." 

"What does this instinctive pressure of the eyelids upon the e^es do to them?" 
"It rounds them up; thereby counteracting that flatness which causes long 
sight, and thus shortens up their focii ; besides redoubling and intensifying the sight 
itself, on the principle above proved that all pressure of organs promotes their func- 
tions 17 when applied to the eyes, visual clearness and power. This flattening con- 
sists in their front part receding and sides bulging out unduly. Now these eyelids 
press mainly on these bulged sides of the eyes, thereby shortening up their lateral 
axis, and elongating that from front to rear. All this is too obvious to need argu- 
ment or amplification. Next for its practical application. After your sight begins 
to fail, 

"Keep on reading, writing, looking, without glasses by squinting, that is, squeez- 
ing your eyelids down on your eyes while open and looking ; thereby both enhanc- 
ing their present sight, and rounding them up for better future seeing." 

" What shall those long used to spectacles do ? Do without them, yet keep on 
trying to read and see with the naked eyes by squinting." 

This is a veritable original discovery, here first published, which, ap- 
plied from forty onwards, will enable all to keep on seeing and reading 
about as well after fifty as before, clear on till death. It is simple, but 
efficacious, and consists in applying well-known optical laws, in conjunction 
with the natural law that pressing all organs promotes their function. 17 
By its use alone I can see better now at seventy-one than I could twenty 
years ago. In i860 I could not read even print like this small pica without 
glasses, whereas now I can read brevier, even minion ; can read any news- 
papers right through, its finest print inclusive, easily ; besides writing all 
night by a pale light, without glasses. So can anybody else who knows 



SOME OF THESE LAWS HITHERTO UNNOTICED 27 

how. Nature does not compel us either to use glasses or go without 
seeing. 

Short sight, its cause and cure, is explained by our principle in reversie, 
thus : Saving what is hereditary, runs in the family, and even then, doubt 
less in the first instance 

// is caused by reading and studying by a poor light, which induce this 
instinctive squinting or pressing of the eyelids upon the eyes in order to 
see the clearer, 17 that is, to counteract this dim light ; which elongates them 
too much, and thereby shortens up the axis of vision, makes the eyes too 
long, and of course vision too short. So be careful how you read by a 
poor light, or by twilight, lest you unduly elongate your eyes by squeez- 
ing them with your eyelids, in order to see the plainer in a dim light. 

To cure short sight, keep your eyes wide open, that is, lift your eyelids up 
off your eyes, and be especially, careful to read only by a good light, and 
then never squint ; for this shortens vision as shown above. 

We make these points plai?ier under " Sight," by giving optical draw- 
ings, to show how sight is executed. 

I take no special pride in having been first to make and proclaim this 
really great discovery, which everybody instinctively practices hourly; 
yet opticians, and writers on sight, where have your own eyes been not 
to have seen this fact and law, as patent as your own nose on your own 
face? Yet its chief honor belongs to the discovery of that pressure 
principle " out of which it grows. 

20. Reaction a Law of Nature. 

Antithesis is a most beneficial natural ordinance, hitherto overlooked. 
" Extremes meet," and create their opposites. 

The four seasons illustrate its application on a long and large scale; 
and each creates the other. Their Creator would not have taken such 
pains to render them inevitable and eternal without their being corre- 
spondingly useful and necessary. 

Day and night are equally so ; for all perpetually see and feel the 
blessings they confer, throughout all time, on every man and woman, 
beast and reptile, even insect and vegetable. How could we do without 
them ? What if we had one perpetual mongrel of both, a dingy twilight, 
early and late, neither dark enough to sleep nor light enough to see well, 
ages upon ages ! How infinitely blessed this " light by day, and dark- 
ness by night ! " 

Long days with short nights in summer, alternating with long nights 
and short days in winter, furnish another illustration of this great antith- 
ical law ; as do ever changing moon and tides, others. 

Atmospheres change between warm days and cool nights, hot middays 
and cold midnights, with several successive seething hot days and nights 
following as many cold, the benefits of which all must perceive, furnish 



28 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

another ; as do also several successive bright, calm, clear, sunshine days 
and nights, followed by as many murky, cloudy, windy, stormy ones ; 
and diurnal changes of weather, hot, dry, clear, cloudy, a drenching thun- 
der-storm, cool, and clear again, all in the same half day. What if we had 
a perpetual drizzle? How much better as it is, raining when it rains, and 
sunshine by itself, with mud to-day and dust to-morrow ! Is California 
any the better for her perpetual drouth from May to October, and rainy 
season from November to April? Yet even they illustrate our subject; 
the alternation being at longer intervals. 

Seasons of vegetable growth and dormancy apply our principle to what- 
ever grows out of the ground ; as do also the periods of vegetable, an- 
imal, and human growth, maturity, and decline ; and likewise birth and 
death ; and each succeeding the other in the same fixed order, or from 
and to the same identical successions. 

Human changes innumerable illustrate this law of opposites following 
each other. Flatter up a man to-day, and he'll return the compliment to- 
morrow ; but backbite him to-day, and he will bite back to-morrow, and 
every day after ; yet do one a good turn to-day, and he'll do you a better 
one to-morrow, and keep on doing ; but strike him to-day, and expect him 
to strike you back to-day, spit in your face to-morrow, and pound you the 
next day with both fists : so be careful which way you yourself begin. 

Nations illustrate this law on a grand scale. The French under Napo- 
leon subdued and tyrannized over the Germans, robbing them of their 
territory, and goading their national pride to the quick ; while the Ger- 
mans quietly bided their time, cherished their revenge, and paid back 
with compound interest on the bloody battle-field of Sedan, and in 
surrounding and taking their idolized city of beauty and learning ; there- 
by maddening all France, besides augmenting taxation beyond endurance, 
thus fomenting revolution, and also entailing a future contest probably 
more terrible to Germany than taking Paris was to France ; while if Ger- 
many had stopped at Sedan, and been magnanimous to France, both 
would have enjoyed a long peace unarmed ; whereas both must now keep 
prepared for a war of extermination, which will yet put the German 
emperor off his throne, and compel a change of government there ; and a 
change in their own governmental policy changes France. Bismarck should 
have known and heeded this law, and not antagonized the Catholics, who 
will now help on revolution, though they abhor it. 

Turkey and Russia, in the past and present, Christian and Moham- 
medan, Catholic and Protestant, a " solid South" solidifying the North, 
Fenian hatred of English tax-gatherers, among modems, and ancient 
Carthage invading Rome, with Rome answering " Carthago delenda est," 
Rome's conquests creating Rome's conquerors, are practical illustrations. 
All history, ancient and modern, is full, is even made up, of kindred ones. 
The same impulsive person in being extra good in some things and bad 



SOME OF THESE LAWS, HITHERTO UNNOTICED. 29 

in others, and great men having great faults along with their special 
gifts, and geniuses in some things being inferior in others, is another il- 
lustration of this law in a mental aspect. How grasping, even rapacious, 
some men. are in making money to-day, who fling it away in a wild revelry 
to-morrow ! How inexpressibly kind is the same person to one, yet un- 
mercifully cruel to another! How loving and good the same woman 
toward one man, yet hardened, hating, and hateful toward another, though 
neither especially deserved either ! How scrupulously conscientious is 
the same person in one respect, yet utterly unscrupulous in another — 
paying his dues to a farthing, yet remorselessly ruining his neighbor's 
wife and daughter ! How proud are some in some respects, yet utterly 
wanting in self*respect in others ! 

Alternate action and rest, health and sickness, weakness and strength, 
vigor and lassitude, hunger and gluttony, getting drunk and sober, are but 
physical outworkings of this law, and another of the greatest practical 
value is that physiological errors can usually be cured by instituting 
their opposites. Gluttony causes dyspepsia, and eating too little is the 
best cure for overeating, as is rest for overwork ; nor does anything pre- 
vent working in the future equally with overworking in the present. The 
more one has to do, the less he can afford to overdo ; and vigorous mus- 
cular action cures excessive mental. All excesses create a proportionate 
paralysis. Extreme sensitiveness benumbs itself, thereby warding off 
further injury. Too much light to-day blunts the visual powers for to- 
morrow, so as to prevent to-morrow's light from redoubling the damage. 
Bonaparte cured his present ills by ascertaining what caused them, and 
then going to the opposite extreme — a correct principle in all respects, 
and founded on this law of antithesis. 

. Our very constitutions are predicated on this identical principle that 
any and all extremes react to produce their opposites. Getting too warm 
cools us off ; and too cold, heats us up ; and too tired, makes us sleep the 
better, in those who have constitution enough to react. This must be 
thus in order to prevent even slight extremes from proving ruinous. 

Kindred illustrations by millions prove that we are expounding a veri- 
table natural law which hitherto has escaped notice as a law ; though 
many of its facts have enforced attention. We shall apply it hereafter to 
the cure of many diseases ; besides showing how any and all extremes 
create their opposites. 

Note how perfectly this underlying principle harmonizes with that al- 
ready stated in 13 that all abuses of natural laws correct themselves. 

21. Electricity Nature's- Great Motor Instrumentality. 

Some tremendous power, spread through all space, and " operating un- 
spent," becomes indispensable in executing Nature's myriads of functions, 
analogous to ubiquitous " perpetual motion," as her " Handy Andy," every- 



30 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

where and forever " on call " to execute every change and function through- 
out all her domains — something to Nature what the great Corliss engine 
was to our Centennial machines. Thus what stupendous dynamic force 
keeps all the starry hosts in perpetual motion forever? How many " horse 
powers" are thus required? Untold billions. Then winds and tides consume 
how many more billions ? Add the growth of all that grows, as in thrust- 
ing roots through hard soils, and all the motive powers put forth by all 
forms of life, from whale and elephant through man and gnat. And needs 
mind no force in putting forth all its raging passions, intense emotions, 
grasping thoughts, soaring aspirations ? Can nothing affect anything ? 
Can we see without some motor power behind vision to put and keep it in 
action, analogous to steam for propelling machinery? And thus of the loves 
and hates in their every action! — of memory, worship, courage, caution, 
and every iota of mental action ! Think out this problem throughout 
every exercise of mind and muscle, and every function of animate and 
inanimate nature ! Each of these effects has its motor cause. What force 
effects all this ? 

Electricity is Nature's giant Corliss engine — ubiquitous, omnipresent, 
and all-powerful ; acting thus : — 

It is composed of two forces, called positive and negative, of which gal- 
vanism and magnetism, mineral and animal, are but its modifications, and 
gravity one among millions of its outworkings. Its motive power is gen- 
erated by this its fundamental principle, that all bodies charged positively 
repel each other, as do all negatively charged ; while all positives and 
negatives attract each other — a law and fact universally conceded. What 
this mysterious occult power is, concerns us less than that it exists, and 
acts and reacts always and is perpetual motion ; inherent in all things. 
Literally, it "lives in all life, extends through all extent, spreads undi- 
vided, operates unspent." 

22. Electricity Propels all Astral Worlds. 

Our Sun is negatively charged, and the source of all negative electric 
force, while all his — should be her ; for behold all her planetary chil- 
dren, our earth of course included — are positive to him. Cold gives 
the most of positive electricity, while heat is negative ; and hence the 
earth is charged negatively in summer and by day, and positively by 
night' and in winter, and therefore most invigorating. Cold is strengthen- 
ing and masculine or virile, and heat feminine and growth-promoting, 
that is, bearing ; while sweet is probably feminine, and sour masculine, 
and lemonade their marriage. These opposite electric states draw them 
together. Yet his being so much the largest, and they being all around 
his sides at once, draw them toward him, instead of him to them ; 
earth toward sun, which generates her centripetal force. Yet what 



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prevents her rushing right into him, to his injury and her utter destruc- 
tion ? This : the nearer she approaches him the more he charges her with 
his negative electric force, which makes both repel each other the harder 
the nearer they come together ; which pushes her gradually back from 
him, and off toward the farther end of her elliptical orbit ; she meanwhile 
gradually giving off her positive electric force into the fields of space, till 
she reaches the extremity of her elliptical orbit, where she gradually 
resumes her normal and positive condition ; which again, after making her 
move off slower and slower, finally stops her going off any farther, and 
little by little whirls her around, and again draws her toward him ; only 
to repeat these annual attractions and repulsions forever, besides creating 
our four seasons — summer, when she is nearest to him and magnetized 
the most ; winter when farthest off ; and spring while she is approach- 
ing ; and fall while receding: whereas, if her orbit were round, as it 
must be if Newton's theory is correct, she could give us but one season, 
half summer and half winter ; mixed and perpetual. 

Behold the good wrought out by her gradual reception and disburse- 
ment of his negative electric force ! 

Her days and niglits, consequent on her rolling through her orbit, 16 are 
created thus : — He is perpetually charging her light side negatively by 
his negative rays — clouds not preventing, because near her — so that he 
negative, and the whole of her light side also negative, their two negative 
electric states are -forever pushing her whole light side off from him with 
tremendous force ; while her whole dark side is positive, and therefore 
as powerfully drawing itself around toward him ; like two stout men on 
opposite sides of a huge barrel, the one pushing and the other pulling it 
over and over. One might expect her to roll from him. What rolls her 
against him ? 

Her afternoon side being the most negatively charged by all his fore- 
noon negative electric force being retained and carried over on to her 
afternoon side, which makes it hottest, or as it were heaviest, pushing her 
from him hardest ; while her dark side is rendered the most positive, or 
demagnetized, by her slowly dispelling his negative electricity, and resum- 
ing her positive state gradually ; which draws her dawning side to him 
much more than her twilight side. She could not turn backwards 
against him, nor move sidewise. Just 

Imagine the amount of rotary power generated all over both her sides 
pushing and pulling her over and over while she exists and shines ! 
Who wonders that she rolls so fast, her eight thousand mile diameter 
making her move easily, considering her vast ponderosity, besides her 
moving so swiftly through her orbit ? 

No planets or comets can ever collide, for all are positive to all, which 
makes all repel all the, more the nearer they approach each other. Laugh at 
all such colliding predictions. This theory of astral motion, both its genera- 



32 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

tion of their motive force, and its mode of regulating their movements, 
all school children can understand, yet the strongest mind can not under- 
stand Newton's figuring, which presupposes a miracle to start these 
movements ; whereas philosophy admits of no miracles. Mathematical 
demonstrations are understandable and conclusive, whereas Newton's are 
neither, and must some day be superseded. 

Changes of. weather and temperature are obviously caused and gov- 
erned by different electric states. This is proved by all thunder-storms 
bringing thermal changes, usually from heat to cold, or negative to posi- 
tive, yet never occurring in cold weather ; by positive electricity super- 
abounding in the coldest weather; and by the moon and planets controlling 
the weather; its states- being predicted accurately for the whole year in 
advance from their changes and positions — an important weather diagnosis 
" Old Prob " should add to his excellent predictions. 

Tides raise water several feet in all seas, and along all shores, and 
seventy on Nova Scotian ; obviously by the positions of the moon ; for 
each always tallies with the other, with electricity obviously for their 
motive principle. 

All vegetable growth is affected by electrical conditions, and greatly 
promoted by their right artificial applications. 



23. Electricity Executes Sensation, Motion, all Functions. 



Nature carries on functions innumerable and diverse, by agents simple, 
yet infinitely ramified and effective. 

Motion,*sensatiou, and all life's other functions must needs be executed 
by an agent extremely subtile, and acting as instantaneously as lightning. 
Please think how quickly you often think and act. The instant your 
finger touches fire you jerk it away ; yet think out by what concomitant 
steps. A part of your organism is suffering damage ; it reports its status 
to the life center, which acts instantly, and summons will and all the 
needed muscles and nerves to withdraw the suffering part, and they 
snatch it away ; all done in the twinkling of an eye. What but elec- 
tricity could do so many things thus instantaneously ? Yet 

Electricity can. Suppose two telegraph batteries so arranged that 
a spark sent from one to the other struck a hammer which sent another 
right back, the sending and returning sparks would be instantaneous, and 
yet, meanwhile, had gone and come hundreds of miles ; time thus overcom- 
ing distance, as just shown in sensation. Electricity effects the telegraphic, 
then why not the sensational and motor nerves ? Could any other agent 
. act thus instantaneously ? What else could act quickly enough to subserve 
the needs of life? A person shot jumps the instant he is struck, because 
electricity jerks all his muscles into simultaneous action to effect the leap. 
Organic destruction might be instantaneous unless instantly averted ; so 



SOME OF THESE LAWS, HITHERTO UNNOTICED. 33 

that the life force needs an agent always on call which acts with light- 
ning celerity in carrying mandates to and from ; and has it in lightning 
itself. Literally, we live on the lightning principle. Nothing else could 
do what electricity does do. We shall yet prove that, and show how, it 
propels the blood. So much for deduction ; next for inductive facts. 

All human beings, all animals, abound in electricity. Who but often 
feels an electric shock with an involuntary twitch, precisely like an elec- 
tric, darting between head and feet, or through a limb ? It is just like an 
electric shock, as its sensation attests, because it is one. Many can light 
gas by touch. How ? By an electric spark generated within them. 
Water is a good electric conductor ; and a friend of mine is so electric that 
in holding her fingers under running water near a faucet a stream of 
electric light is seen between her ringer and the faucet ; while holding 
her hand sends an electric stream up the arm, as distinctly perceptible as 
if receiving electricity from an electric battery. Others by thousands 
give and receive this electric current very perceptibly, even in merely 
shaking hands. 

Combing the hair of a healthy person in right cold weather creates 
electric sparks by the thousand, easily seen in the dark, and their snap- 
pings plainly heard ; and the more numerous and snappy the healthier 
the persons combed, and colder the weather. Your three senses — sight, 
hearing, and feeling — are the witnesses. 

Drawing off woollen undergarments briskly in cold weather creates 
these same electric sparks — a sure sign of health. 

Stroking pussy s back in very cold weather creates like sparks ; an 
experiment all can try. 

That electricity creates said twitches and sparks is self-evident to all 
who know what electric sparks and shocks are ; though we group galvan- 
ism and magnetism under the same head, because each is obviously pro- 
duced by the same primal electric forces. 

Their super abounding in cold weather, when positive electricity is the 
most abundant, proves that they obtain in all weathers ; and the fact that 
all the life operations are most vigorous then, adds to our argument that 
electricity is the great working agent of life ; and we show hereafter that 
its action creates life, as well as executes its functions. In fact its two 
forces, positive and negative, are virtually Nature's male and female 
parents of all life. Please 

Note this proof of this electric principle, as it will be often referred to 
subsequently, and also established by many other inductive ranges of facts. 
We hereafter show Nature's mode and manner of carrying forward motion, 
sensation, breathing, etc., by electricity. 



34 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

24. — Alternate Heat and Cold create Electricity, Climate, Etc. 

Nature is perfect : * climates are changeable ; therefore the changes 
of climate are beneficial. When I believed California had the best cli- 
mate on earth, and the only one fit for luxurious human beings to live in, 
I still wondered that God should make one so good, and all not equally 
so, till I learned that, like His fruits, some sweet, others sour, some late, 
others early, etc., thereby adapted to all tastes, so He had made Cali- 
fornia the best climate on earth for some, but poor for others ; and thus 
of all other climates. What is just right for Hottentots, would soon kill 
Siberians. Equithermal climates are best for those too weakly to react 
against sudden changes from heat to cold, and back ; while the latter is 
best for the robust. One fairly vigorous is rendered the more so by every 
change of weather, either way. Extremes benefit, not injure, all such. A 
New England climate often changes more in five hours than a Lower 
California does in as many years ; yet its inhabitants are as healthy, and 
more hardy. To those in health 

All thermal changes are pleasant from warm to cold, and then back, 
from and to each season, from storm to sunshine, and the converse, and 
so of all others. And their being agreeable, proves that they are bene- 
ficial. Rendered so by what law? By this, that 

All climatic changes generate electricity. All know that changes from heat 
to cold do so. All thunder-storms do these two things — bring cold, and brace 
up ; except that any storm which clears off warm will soon be followed by 
another that clears off with cold. All thunder-storms equalize the atmos- 
pheric electricity. Before them, that is during heat, negative electricity 
abounds ; after them, cooler weather and positive electricity. That is, 
changing from heat to cold generates positive electric force ; and from 
cold to warm, creates negative. This is what both makes us feel pleasant, 
and long for the other, whenever we have either. Those who need and 
can stand more positive electricity, love cold weather best, and changes 
from warm to cold ; while those who lack reactory power, prefer the 
warm. 

Since man must have electricity, 21 and since all thermal changes gener- 
ate its positive or negative force, therefore they are beneficial and neces- 
sary. We shall show farther on how all can utilize them. 

Summer a?id whiter are beneficial on a scale commensurately larger ; 
as are spring and fall. At the equator the negative electric force pre- 
dominates ; in the frigid belt, the positive ; in the temperate, both by turns. 
Those too high strung, go south ; relaxed, go north ; and all who can 
stand their own climate, stay at home. All who go south become toned 
down, for they fail to get positive electric force. " Oh, for some good 
northern, bracing, breathing timber," was the general exclamation of 
northern boarders at Aiken, S. C, in Feb., 1878. 



SOME OF THESE LAWS, HITHERTO UNNOTICED. 35 

The facts that cold weather braces up and quickens all animal func- 
tions and abounds in positive electric force, while warm relaxes and tones 
down all, and in it negative electricity predominates over positive ; 
that thunder-storms equalize electricity by inducing both cool weather 
and positive electricity which tone up, furnish inductive proof on the 
largest inductive scale that transitions from hot weather to cool generate 
positive electric force ; and from cool to warm, usually by sunshine, 
create negative electric force. This proves that the sun is negative ; that 
in winter the positive electric force prevails, and in summer the negative ; 
that vegetables, grains, fruits, etc., are negative, and cold air positive ; 
also opens up the true theory and the fundamental principles of Nat- 
Tire in general, and human nature and functionism in particular ; which 
will yet be run out in detail, and applied to the illimitable promotion of 
human life and happiness. 

22. — Heat Petrifies. How to turn Wood into Stone. 

A petrified forest can be seen on a hill-side about six miles from Calis- 
toga Springs, in California. How came it there ? What turned its wood 
into stone ? It consists of pine, oak, hemlock, and other trees turned into 
veritable stone. Turned when ? 

Whilst standing. This is proved by the trunks, some six feet through 
and of all sizes downward, roots, branches, and bark included, being 
broken in two every four to six feet, square off ; for if they had broken 
while yet wood, they would have split and splintered while breaking, and 
broken into longer pieces, with splintered ends. Their being broken off 
into short lengths and square ends, is proof demonstrative that they fell 
while stones, not wood — were petrified before they fell. Nothing can be 
clearer. Then what turned these standing, growing trees into stone ? 

Volcanic heat — demonstrated thus, I. That Calistoga Springs are a 
smouldering volcano is proved by their continually emitting hot water, 
steam, hot mud, and other volcanic eruptions. The adjoining mountains 
rise straight up from the circular plane in which these Springs are, and 
resemble the inside of an old crater perfectly ; and a high mountain peak 
beginning near their base was obviously formed by volcanic action. The 
heat from this seething volcano, after an eruption, rolled along up through 
this mountain forest, and turned it from growing wood into solid stone ; 
yet did not ignite, because it contained no igniting sparks, and because 
nothing can burn without oxygen, which this belching volcano had pushed 
off before it. Heat turns many things it can not burn nearly or quite into 
stone, as china and earthenware, door-knobs, pottery, clay, clinkers, brick, 
slag, and many kindred things. 

2. The lava which formed the Rocky Mountains crowded the animals 
along a plain in which they were feeding — preying on and being preyed 



36 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LIFE. 

upon — up against its rocky sides, near the Columbia River Dalls, in 
Oregon, and overwhelmed and buried them all together, and left their 
bones petrified where and just as they then stood and were, by its heat 
expelling all oxygen, and giving no spark. Their petrified bones have 
been exhumed by the Rev. Mr. Condon, the Oregon State Geologist. 

Mankind will yet utilize this heat-petrifying principle, by first shaping 
wood and other things for manufacturing requirements, and using the 
waste heat of furnaces, rolling-mills, etc., for converting them into veri- 
table stone. When they do, may they remember by whom and where this 
principle was first propounded. 



wives to do any and every tiling they wish with their husband's hearts, purse and whole being - 
as do harlots with their victims by this same means; while brides by millions stab their doting bride 
groom's tender Love "right under its fifth rib," turning all its lusclousness into bitterness ever after, 
just through ignorance of this center marital function. O what agonies most wives incur, andecstacies 
lose, to themselves, husbands, and children, through its sins of omission and commission! all of whicl 
this knowledge would orevent. 

Human instinct now compels attention to this momentous subject. Experience obliges all to learn, 
by self-destruction if not otherwise; by right action or wrong, not none. Shall science guide its rijhl 
use, or blind passion slaughter these groping millions by its wrong ? is the only alternative. "Guide'' 
says this book : ''Let them wallow and rot on," answer its opponents. Read and heed all ye w r ho are 
eexed, and scan attentively these soul-stirring subjects with many more, here treated scientifically. 

SYNOPSIS. Creation Nature's great work. Has its science. Dignity and surpassing utility. 
"Each alter its own kind." All parental instincts, proclivities, specialties, likenessess, longevity, statue, 
strength, diseases, marks, deformities, even all iotas, descend to progeny. Often skip one generation. 
Twelve legged horses. All Jews like Abraham Geniuses come from long lived stock. Value of this 
treating capacity. Gender creates and transmits. Consists in " male and female. " Inheres in the mind. 
..lasculine and feminine heads and attributes. Hybrids. Analysis of manhood by what women prize in 
men— strength, stature, force, firmness, dignity, gallantry, generosity, originality, talents, passion, &c. ; 
because mules stamp these traits. Analysis of womanhood; ditto of female beauty. Value., Only 
maternal attributes beautify women, or attract men. What physical female qualities men admire. Two 
types of beauty, oval and fawn shaped. False forms. Fashions. What traits men prize in women — 
txquisitivencss, love of young, affection, prudence, tact, piety, ton, gratitude, scholarship, brilliancy, 
language, mirth, kindness, &c, because mothers impart them to children. The sexes should co-operate 
in all things, nntagonize never. " Woman's rights," and how to get them. Loved dependence vs. un- 
loved independence. How men and women should behave toward each other. Signs of perfect and 
impaired sexual states and voices, motions, forms, postures, faces, eyes, complexions, redness, pallor, 
fat, ccc. Puberty. LOVE. What it docs and is. Passion its incentive to action. Stronger and 
vveaker Gives conjugal talent. A male and female magnetism loves and creates. Precious. Influence 
supreme. Located at the life center. Active Love doubles, dormant halves, warmth, circulation, sleep, 
motion, respiration, health, charms of face, manners, tones, &c, affection, appetite, economy, courage, 
energy, taci. prudence, self-trust, perseverance, morals, hopes, religion, kindness, taste, mirth, buoyau- 
-V. perceptions, order, music, memory, expression, sense, politeness, intuition, all human enjoyment.? 
and virtues, and builds up or breaks down ail. How V Most powerful. Must act. Preciousuess oi 
a hearty vs. tame. Right Action vs. wrong. Parties, dances, sociables, mingling of sexes. Spies- 
Conversatories. How to moralize young men. Averted, hardened, disgusted, deadened, inflamed, and 
other states. One Love vs. free, "^/-perpetuating. Exclusive Jealousy. Polygamy. What I saw 
of Mormon. Turkish. MARRIAGE. Its only sphere. Defined. Divine. Creates families. Due to 
self and the other sex. All should multiply. When second marriages are and are not best. ' Mourn- 
ing. Celibacy. Evils. Causes. Excuses. , Old maids. Ladies may choose and court. Founding 
a family. Best time. Females determine it. The 18 year old fever. Differing ages. SELECTION. 
Life's casting die. General marriage prerequisites — constitution, parentage, health, industry, riches, 
looks, accomplishments, talents, music, scholarship, morals, disposition, habits, temperance, cousins, 
gender, &c. Individual adaptations. Superb children govern choice. Fitness and Love go together. 
Repulsions. Similarity the great rule. When dissimilars. Consumptives, insane, malformed, &c. 
What forms, temperaments, noses, &c, may, and must not marry, copiously illustrated. When differ- 
ences improve. Perfecting the race. Phrenology helps select just right. Marital intelligence offices. 
Self intuition the final umpire. COURTSHIP. Has its science. Its two stages.' Wrong spoils most 
marriages. Flirting. Wicked. Loving is marrying. Liberties kill Love." "Sorter courtin', and 
sorter not." Make Love in every day clothes. Sunday nights, &c. Presents. " Spatts." Sudden 
marriages. Dismissals. "Breaches." Eloping. Just now to conduct courtship. Long and short. Its 
pleasures. The love making secret. Proposal, acceptance, and vow. Keep Love pure. Assimilate. 
Prepare. Relatives. MARRIED LIFE. Wedding. Make it memorable. Honeymoon and annum. 
Home vs. boarding. Rules for the married. 1 Be the perfect man and woman. 2 Gentleman and lady. 
Differences. Praise vs. blame. Duty consorts. 3 Share interests, purse, knowledge, dormitory, every- 
thing together. Evils of not. 4 Mould and be moulded. 5 Make each other happy. 6 Court on 
through married life. Love vs. business. Cosy seasons. Family amusements. Model consorts. A 
perfect union. Discords. Amount. Causes. Cures. Bury old. bones. Divorces. When allowable, 
and when not. Infidelity. Diseasing a consort. Jealousy. Drink. Jury of both sides decide. 
GENERATION. Infinitely more potential than education. The regenerator of the race. Sacred. The 
ultimate and controller of gender, Love and marriage. Its science, pleasures and power for good and 
evil. Stimulates every physical function. Exalts all the mental Faculties. All its existing parental 
states stamped on offspring. What states improve and impair both. Platonic Love first. Most pleas- 
urable. Promotes potency. In s} r mpathy with the sexuality. Marrying one while loving another 
double adultery. Preparation, time, surroundings, &c. Between whom right and wrong. Out of 
wedlock. Passion essential. Who should cultivate and who restrain it. Participance due from and 
to both. Passion necessary in woman. Inspires man. Endows offspring. Her indifference hurts 
him, disorders her, and infuriates both. Her rightful control of her own person. She his passional 
governess. Plain talk to amorous husbands. Causes and cures of female passivity. Her love and 
passion go together. Fondling kindles, scolding kills both. Wife scolding husbands fools and lunatics. 
Developing a wife. Frequency. Advice to those just married. Boys or girls as desired. Errors. 
Haste. Excitement. Continence, promiscuity, mistresses, &c. — do they injure ? Preventing concep- 
tion. Large families, &c. Barrenness. Causes — inertia, avertions, nervousness, nymphomania, 
&c. Male structure. Office, &c, of each part. The life germ. Its wonders. How vivified and trans- 
ferred. Collective position and action of all parts. Illustrated. The Female Organs. Illustrated. 
Mutual counterparts and adaptations. PREGNANCY. The placenta. All maternal states affect prog- 
enal character. Opposite traits in large families. Marks — how caused and prevented. Ishmacl, 
Samson, Samuel, Mary,. Bonaparte, &c. Pity bad children. What maternal states are best. Vitality, 
sleep, recreation, food, breathing, lacing, exercise, apparel, bathing, &c. Bearing paramount. '.; Pro- 
motes health. Best mental states. What parts are formed in which months. How to produce 
orators, poets, authors, merchants, inventors, preachers, &c. , at pleasure. Loving vs. hating babes 
before birth. Fear. Dropsy on the brain — how caused and cured. Sexur.l abstenence then. JNeed 



of husband's sympathy. Signs. Natural labor easy, severe avoidable. F 
lution. Watefcure in child birth. Flooding. Bleeding, drugging, <S 
Preserving the form. Diet. Lactition. REARING. Babes precious. ] 
Medicines. Worms. Scarlet fever. Bathing. Weaning. Clothes. " 



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Medicines. Worms. Scarlet fever. Bathing. Weaning. Clothes. "( ~ ' l,, ^ , ^'™ ,l,l,, "™iiililllllllllll|j||||||||||| , |||^| 
and year. The nutritive period till 7. The muscle-forming till 14. iGn U (]// 00^ flV|7 t\ 
vs. Schooling. Precocity. Government. Loving vs. Punishing. App. v ^' 0£4 5W| A 
crush will, self-reliance, force, &c. Example better than precept. Each needs special uu..... — 
Mother's Love the magic wand. IMPAIRMENTS. Amount of sexual decline and disease, vice and 
misery. Abortion. Poison. Secret sins. Amount appalling in both sexes. Inflames. Exhausts. 
Benumbs brain and mind. Unsexes. Impairs marriage. Causes seminal losses, prematurity, &c. En- 
feebles offspring. As bad as fornication. Signs. Abstain. Prevention. By knowledge. When 
learn ? Mothers should warn. Ministers, ditto. Conscience. Mothers and sons, and fathers and 
daughters, loving each other. Promote not ridicule children's loves. Affiliating with elders of opposite 
sex. Blighted Love. Creates lust. Impairs menses. Causes ovarian dropsy, &c. Right Love 
cures all sexual ailments, and "the great evil." "Broken hearts" mended. Crucify old Love. Love 
again. Old Loves prevent new. New kill old. What shall married disappointees do ? Restoration. 
Penitence. A sinning and repentant husband, and forgiving, happy wife. Love saves and restores. 
Girlhood. Education ruins. Wrong and right merging into womanhood. Sexual inertia and 
starvation. Preserving chastity. Watched vs. self preserved virtue. How marriage cures sexual 
ailments. Hygene. Mind cure. Impotcncy, inertia, prematurity, poisons, constipation, &c, self-cured. 
Local applications of water, electricity, &c. Female complaints. Prolapsus. Visceral manipulations. 
Whites. Backache. Miscarriages. Menstruation promoted and diminished. Cause and cure of extra fat, 
short breath, &c. Nymphomania. Female turn of life. Advice to elderly women and men. Climates. 
Female beauty and bloom. Value. Made to last. What spoils and will renew. All right love states 
improve, all wrong impair, beauty of face, figure, and all other charms. Rules and directions for retain- 
ing and regaining sexual vigor. Our subject not exaggerated. A perfect sexual life. Concluding 
summary and appeal. No other subjects touch the soul life like these, sweeping whatever inner chords 
remain unpalsied. Find their complete "natural laws" exposition hc?»e, but no where else; and in their 
natural order. 

JCAKi i\ . Man's Self-Caring and Elevating Faculties. Analyzes the animal propensities, 
and aspiring and artistical Sentiments which embody the great bulk of human interests, pleasures and 
labors; give the Analysis, Discovery, Description- and Location, cultivation and restraint ol 
Force,' Destruction, Secretion, Acquisition, Caution, Application, Ambition, Self-esteem. Firmness, 
Sublimity, Ideality, Construction and Imitation, with observations on energy, punishment, death 
commerce, political and pers.nal economy, currency, insurance, railroads, care of self, policy, pru 
dence, a good name, credit, fashion, style, aristocracy, domination, will power, dignity, psrseverance. 
Scenerv, beauty, taste, the fine arts, poetry, writing, theatricals, painting, drawing, arithmetic; cheap 
and good homes; the groundwall and octagon modes of building, &c. Home, its structure, fruits, 
flowers. Exterpating pests, roaches, bugs, rats, tfce. 

PARTY. Intellect, Memory, Reason. Their analysis and culture. Memory is a most valuable 
possession. What annual rent could lawyers, business men, students, everybody, afford to pay to be 
enabled to recall all they evor knew? How many daily losses, consequent on a poor, would a good, 
convert into gain? A good education is worth over a poor? What pleasures surpass those 
derived from studying Nature, her laws, phylosophies and facts. Reason and sense are still more 
so, while eloquence is no less. Mind controls matter. Knowledge is power. Understanding is man's 
constitutional governor and guide. Mental decipline is man's highest attainment and crowns all 
others. Admeasure the pleasures and powers of a strong and cultivated intellect, over a weak, dull 
one, and learn in Part V. how to realize them all. It analyzes, describes and shows how to cultivate 
and' restrain Observation, Form, Size, Weight, Colors, Order, Computation, Locality, Eventuality, Time, 
Tune, Language, Causality, Comparison, Human Nature and Politeness ; unfolds a greatly improved 
system of education, juvenile and personal; shows how to develope talents for arithmetic, eloquence, 
music, letters. logic, &c, cultivate the senses and improve any and every intellectual gift 

PART VI. Man's Moral Nature, God and Immortality. By analyzing man's moral faculties, 
expounds his most eventful problems, and relations; proves the divine existence and attributes; immor- 
tality of the soul, and interrelations of this life with that to come, as follows: Man created with 
moral and religious factors. Located highest and supreme. Religion one of the natural sciences. 
Worship. Its Analysis: Adores God, which proves His existence. Its duty, pleasures, restraints, bene- 
fits. Prayer. A luxury. How answered. Natural Theology. Promotes Worship. Men worship a 
God like themselves. His attributes, sects, creeds, revivals, &c , accounted for. A natural laws sect 
propounded. The true sect, Times for religious worship. The Sabbath. How to make children 
love religion. Immortality. Proofs. Relation to time, conditions and surroundings, Visions, Second 
sights, ""ministering angels," Departed friends, Providences, Prophesies. '-'The light within." Hope. 
Its description, culture and restraint. Expects, and this proves immortality. Conscience. Its 
office location and effect on conduct, cultivation and restraint. Penitence, Punishment, here and here- 
after.' Pardon, Salvation, Death as affecting the Soul and Futurity. Christianity and Phrenology in 
perfect harmony. Kindness. Adaption, location, discription, culture and restraint. An unequal 
duty and luxury. Doing good to man from love of God, the superlative virtue. 

PART VII. Phrenology Applied. Education. Does not, yet should, conform to human nature. 
Isimpirical not practical, and unfits tor life's strugles. The true scholastic system. _ Speeches, text- 
books- and lectures vs. study as educafors. Success in life and its conditions. Life's failures and 
their causes. How to do the most and best work possibly. Working capacity almost exhaustions. 
The author's experiences touching health, work, &c. All Mature eternally progressing. Solar system, 
earth and each of her produots. Survival of the fittest. How fruits, flowers, vegetables, xc, improve 
inimitably. Past and future progress of the race through each Faculty, from Amativeness to Causality, 
All its products. Every evil to be supplanted by its opposite Good. Ail discoveries to be carried down 
all time Governmental progress, ditto religious, scientific, &q. Individual progress from birth 
to death All faults and errors to be wiped out. All terrestial self-improvement augments celestial 
forever. Four mental factors. 1. Experience and observation ever teaching God's laws and the 
benefits of obeying them. 2. Memory carrying all ever learned on with us forever. 3. sense to sum 
up all experiences; and 4. Self-interest to compel us to seek all good and to avoid ad pam, making 
all better and better eternally. Infinite and eternal hapiness the finale of life. 



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